Buy it here. 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' by Douglas Hofstadter (1979) A logical-philosophical-computational tour de force. Very long, very rewarding. I read it between the end of high school and the ...

Evolution theory suggests that conscious perceptions of the world are tuned to fitness to promote survival. Quantum mechanics ...

As U.S.-China relations face mounting tension and uncertainty, reflecting on the early days of cultural exchange in the 1980s reveals a simpler time of optimism, goodwill, and mutual curiosity. While ...

These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism ...

This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. What’s believed to be Bach’s skeleton, photographed in 1895 by anatomist Wilhelm His. Andreas Otte examined the ...

Can you give an example of that difference between human and AI creativity? I did an exercise at the Barbican Performing Arts Centre in London about Bach, where we got an AI to learn from all of ...

British contributions to research and practice in human intelligence are described and discussed. The emphasis on individual differences in humans' cognitive abilities and the search for the origins ...

Writing has always been a tricky task, but today, lucky you can just ask ChatGPT to compose all your emails, texts, reports, ...

Project Escher is your basic Cartesian filament printer, but with a twist: it has five heads. These print heads work together to build large objects very quickly. Autodesk open sourced the design ...

Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human Interest — and everything else in between! She joins having written for several popular news ...

“The Matrix is everywhere; it is all around us. Even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work ...