Postcards From The Edge (Of Science)

mcadam writes: "As my graduate school thesis deadline approaches, I find myself looking for increasingly ingenious ways of wasting time. One of my favourites is reading through Edge.org. Edge is a meeting place for some of the most interesting people working in AI, the cognitive sciences, anthropology, cosmology, and pretty much everything else you're likely to read about on this site. Over recent months, contributors such as Daniel C. Dennett, Rodney Brooks, Stephen Jay Gould, and Ray Kurzweil have left the commentaries and contributions to the site in either text form or streaming video. Everything you find here is as important as it is fascinating. Kurzweil comments on theories of the singularity, the late Ken Kesey advises us about God, Freeman Dyson is there in video to ponder whether life is analog or digital. Why do I bring this up now? Because each year the site's users send in postcards from their various summer retreats, this year's postcards are in and they are fascinating without exception."

Comments

Gould?

[random735]

The dead are rising and posting on internet forums!

(with apologies to the simpsons, of course)

Daniel C. Dennett

[tswinzig]

I think Mr. Dennett has a secret. His friend on the left in this picture is trying to record the secret for posterity.

Thank you!

[Sgt York]

I'm sitting for my candidacy exam next month, and I am in the throes of writing & re-writing my proposal. I therefore have allowed my inner-procrastinator to come forward & take the helm. After visiting this place He has taken full control.

Great. I'm screwed.