Artists again led the way … science has only just caught up…
Tag: Consciousness
NEWS: WINTER 2012 – Happenings in Art, Science and Other Stuff
HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS: Your brain wiring in 3-D…
The Human Connectome Project can now scan and show all the wiring in your brain – but not yet
Is The Internet Conscious? Could It Be?
The short answer is
Of Chimp & Child – And Aesop’s Fable
How smart is your four-year-old? Not as smart as a chimp, or maybe even Aesop’s rook. Watch these videos in the BBC News report Spitting and Urinating Chimps ‘Replay Aesop’s Fable.
Information = Knowledge?
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
T.S. Eliot, from “The Rock” (1934)
Since those bleak pre-war days when Eliot put down these lines, our world has galloped on at even greater speed, with a velocity ever more dizzying. This of course is in great part aided by the advent of the computer and the information age. It has created such wealth and prosperity utterly unimagined a mere seventy years ago. But has all this made our lives better? Are we wiser and happier? We should be, if information = knowledge.