Sublime

Roger Penrose’s The Emperor’s New Mind.

Étudier l’évolution des comportements de l’enfant revenait dès lors à étudier la science en marche du bébé à l’adulte – « l’embryologie de la raison

Un homme, une voix. La grande majorité est comme Hitler, elle a eu pour école la rue. » Alfred se risque un peu plus avant. « Je crois cependant que la supériorité de l’Allemagne émane de nos grands esprits – Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Schiller, Leibniz. Non ? — C’est précisément la raison pour laquelle je vous ai demandé de rester. Il lui faut… comment

Tomasello’s great innovation was to create a set of simple tasks that could be given to chimps and to human toddlers in nearly identical form.53 Solving the task earned the chimp or child a treat (usually a piece of food for the chimp, a small toy for the child). Some of the tasks required thinking only about physical objects in physical space—for

Meriwether did not himself possess a first-rate mathematical mind. Instead, he recruited the top academic talent. No finance professor was more respected than Robert C. Merton. Merton had consulted for Salomon Brothers, so Meriwether already knew him. He agreed to come on board. Meriwether’s other great coup was recruiting Myron Scholes. As

Leonardo’s genius was a human one, wrought by his own will and ambition. It did not come from being the divine recipient, like Newton or Einstein, of a mind with so much processing power that we mere mortals cannot fathom it. Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can

Autisme

l’Américain Burrhus Skinner (1904-1990). Éminent représentant du comportementalisme avec son principe de conditionnement opérant, Skinner a inventé l’enseignement programmé.

the brain of the monkey reacted to the observation of a person’s action just as it would if it were itself performing that action.