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#8: What Can a Computer Be? with Flora Moon and Esteban Montero
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What can a computer be?
A discussion about computing with Flora Moon and Esteban Montero of Holon Labs. What is a computer and what do we want it to be? If a computer is made of living matter (something being explored now in various labs) how do we understand the traditional distinctions of technology and biology?
“The air itself is one vast library on whose pages are for ever written all that man has ever said or woman whispered.”__Charles Babbage (1837)
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Holon Labs
Flora Moon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/floramoon/
Esteban Montero LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemonterov/
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Claude Shannon
Category theory—a way to represent meaning
Hilma af Klint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilma_af_Klint
Pema Chodron When Things Fall Apart
#computing #computer #cognition #love #philosophy
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