Sublime

But what machines cannot yet do well, and that the human brain succeeds in doing wonderfully, is integrate new information within an existing network of knowledge.

In economics the particles, that is, agents, are endowed with some kind of foresight. Their image of the future affects the present.

The big ideas were in place. The pleasure of discovery, the pleasure of finally understanding, was already fading. Surprises were becoming rare. It was simply a matter of putting on the finishing touches, the technical details, of conforming to the bureaucratic requirements of the official language of mathematics. In the final months of editing,

I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption.

like bubbles in a fizzy drink.

a-t-il un centre actif de l’esprit, des structures auxquelles s’accrochent les idées (un cerveau)