Archive for February 12th, 2012
George Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turning: “The Vertigo of the Modern”
A roller coaster ride for your mind–have a look at this documentary, “Dangerous Knowledge,” on the work of Georg Cantor, Kurt Gödel, and Alan Turing. Towards the end (around 1:24) one of the commentators uses one of the most memorable phrases I’ve ever heard to characterize what it is to be “modern”—paraphrasing here:
The vertigo of the modern: the whirlpool of thinking about thinking about thinking about thinking . . .
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San Francisco May 2004-3
- Richard Feynman - The Essence of Science (in one minute) May 17, 2012
- What Is the Self? May 17, 2012
- Inside Nature's Giants - Kangaroo May 16, 2012
- Fight Club - Chemical Burn May 15, 2012
- David Eagleman - The Brain and the Law May 14, 2012
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