Could the Internet feel happy or depressed? That's a distinct possibility, according to Christof Koch. In this EXTENDED interview, he talks about computer consciousness, God, and just what it means that our brains have a hundred billion neurons and trillions of synapses. Koch wonders whether all matter might have consciousness.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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In 1969, Frederic Whitehurst was in Viet Nam, burning captured enemy documents. He saved the diary of a young woman, and many years later returned it to her mother.
Bill Streever is an Alaskan biologist and a "cryophile" - someone who loves the cold. He describes what it's like to jump into freezing water as hypothermia starts to set in.
Danny Gregory tells Jim Fleming that film-strips became popular around the time of the second world war and were used for industrial training and in public schools.
David Galenson talks to Steve Paulson about his theory that most artists are either old masters like Cezanne or young geniuses like Picasso.
Nature writer David Quammen has written a book called “Monster of God.” It’s about man-eating predators. Quammen says that such beasts have often been worshiped but the habitats are being encroached on by development.
Don Lattin says the whole strange trip started when Leary swallowed some magic mushrooms in Mexico in 1960.
Artist and activist Molly Crabapple believes borders are soon becoming a thing of the past.
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