I have been blogging less recently. One reason is that I have been working on talks such as the one I gave recently at Techonomy in Detroit and the one I am preparing now for TEDxNY. The other reason though is that I have been reading a lot about buddhism, hinduism, neuroscience and physics. I don’t yet have a lot to say about my new insights as I am still learning and digesting but I wanted to share what motivated my interest. Unbeknownst to me it started with a blog post I wrote a while bac...

I have been blogging less recently. One reason is that I have been working on talks such as the one I gave recently at Techonomy in Detroit and the one I am preparing now for TEDxNY. The other reason though is that I have been reading a lot about buddhism, hinduism, neuroscience and physics. I don’t yet have a lot to say about my new insights as I am still learning and digesting but I wanted to share what motivated my interest. Unbeknownst to me it started with a blog post I wrote a while bac...

A couple of weeks ago I heard Brian Greene state there is no scientific basis for free will. It was a powerful statement because he made it quite categorically and tersely. And it really jolted me into thinking about this longstanding philosophical problem that I hadn’t really spent much time thinking about since College. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect as I have been studying up on neural networks. As I have thought more about it I find myself agreeing with Brian. At any one momen...

A couple of weeks ago I heard Brian Greene state there is no scientific basis for free will. It was a powerful statement because he made it quite categorically and tersely. And it really jolted me into thinking about this longstanding philosophical problem that I hadn’t really spent much time thinking about since College. The timing couldn’t have been more perfect as I have been studying up on neural networks. As I have thought more about it I find myself agreeing with Brian. At any one momen...

I have been spending a lot of hours driving in the last couple of days as we are on a road trip to the kids’ summer camps. Inevitably when driving long distances my mind starts wandering. In particular I have been thinking about how political change has become so incredibly difficult. We have big issues that we need to address but the political systems here and elsewhere mostly seem in a kind of stasis. Historically there were several opportunities for a new start as people migrated to new te...

I have been spending a lot of hours driving in the last couple of days as we are on a road trip to the kids’ summer camps. Inevitably when driving long distances my mind starts wandering. In particular I have been thinking about how political change has become so incredibly difficult. We have big issues that we need to address but the political systems here and elsewhere mostly seem in a kind of stasis. Historically there were several opportunities for a new start as people migrated to new te...