Sublime

Turner is now an ordained Zen monk, yet he is also still a physicist, working for a company that makes helium neon lasers.

Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. The most important hypothesis in all of biology, for example, is that everything that animals do, atoms do. In other words, there is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they are made of atoms acting according to the laws of physics. This was not

There is no Newtonian law of markets; they are all ephemeral relationships in a sea of noise and the only way you can do that and capture non-linearity and complexity is with a system that is rich enough to be able to contain all the models, so a universal approximator—that’s what neural nets are—and allows you to do that.

As it turns out, the existence of an entity outside the “brain computer” is also implied by a mathematical law called Gödel’s Theorem.