Oct 15, 2007
Newest Edge Foundation question: What’s your equation?
I always love the questions that the Edge Foundation’s World Question Center comes out with. This time, they asked 88 leading scientists, thinkers and visionaries “What is your formula? Your algorithm? Your equation?” Although you may not agree with all of the responses, it’s well worth going through them. Here are my favorites:
- Max Tegmark tells us why there are three dimensions of space and one of time, with an enlightening diagram.
- Michael Shermer shows us how to use the Drake Equation to estimate the number of civilizations in our galaxy.
- David Deutsch explains why it is that, if we had a time machine and tried to enact paradoxes, we would simply go back to a universe in which those events really happened. (!)
- Donald Hoffman proves that the proposition that “the mind is what the brain does” is false.
- Alun Anderson shows us the significance of many-to-many systems such as the social web: 2N-N-1
- Paul Davis shows us the equation needed to model the universe, starting before the existence of particles.
- Nicholas Humphrey elucidates the nature of the mystery of private conscious qualia.
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