Marilynne Robinson and Marcelo Gleiser — The Mystery We Are
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Can We Ever Build a Clock That Thinks Right?
I was thinking, can we ever build a machine that thinks right? That's really the question. I don't see how even increasing the power of computers will be able to do that. We try to make models, which are never the whole truth of nature. Every model is a lie but some models explain more than others. And when you're writing fiction, you're doing something of the same kind,. Or when you're making a scientific theory, you'redoing something of thesame kind. In science, the hypothesis is floated and retrieves what it can and explodes if it needs to. But in fiction, unless the fiction fails, the hypothesis does not get exploded - although at the
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