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Visit : https://www.markvernon.com/in-the-shadow-of-the-machine-review In the shadow of the machine – review Mark Vernon: “There is the first century BCE Antikythera mechanism that was rediscovered on the Mediterranean seabed. It demonstrates a knowledge of clockwork and gears for making astronomical calculations that wasn’t surpassed until Pascal designed his calculating machine in the seventeenth century. In other words, steam engines, watermills and possibly batteries exis

“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” ―Zhuangzi,The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu Chu

PDF : https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf "The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by Argentineauthor and librarian Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library containing all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set. The story was originally published in Spanish in Borges' 1941 collection of stories

Three Thousand Years of Algorithmic Rituals: The Emergence of AI from the Computation of Space Matteo Pasquinelli Visit > https://www.e-flux.com/journal/101/273221/three-thousand-years-of-algorithmic-rituals-the-emergence-of-ai-from-the-computation-of-space 1. Recomposing a Dismembered God In a fascinating myth of cosmogenesis from the ancient Vedas, it is said that the god Prajapati was shattered into pieces by the act of creating the universe. After the birth of the world,