Fellow Interintellect Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang “Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction.…
Étienne Fortier-Dubois leads a series of thematic discussions on the work of science fiction author Ted Chiang. In part 2, we discuss stories that imagine the world as if God were a observable scientific fact. Ted Chiang ranks among the best living authors of science fiction. Though he cannot be described as prolific — his…
Progress writer Jason Crawford is writing a book about the modern world and how it was invented. In a series of salons, we will explore this content together, chapter by chapter,…
In this salon, Tom Beakbane explores the concept of consilience: the principle that evidence from independent, unrelated sources can “converge” on strong conclusions. Consilience is a new mode of thinking that is resulting from advances in many academic disciplines. Progress in biochemistry, genetics and mathematics allow us to make sense of the processes at work in the…
In his latest Interintellect salon, Alex Danco explores systems thinking, and the paradox of order amongst chaos. Here is a puzzle: There's only one thing we know for sure about…
