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The Cambridge Quintet: A Work of Scientific Speculation Book

Santa Fe Institute mathematician John Casti calls The Cambridge Quintet "scientific fiction," a work whose goal "is to present a lively and comprehensible exposition of the intellectual and emotional uncertainties involved in shaping the future of human knowledge." Casti sets the way-back machine for 1949, and imagines that C.P. Snow (pundit, civil servant, and physicist) hosts a dinner party in his rooms at Cambridge University to discuss the possibility that a machine could be made to think. The guests: philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, mathematician and computer demigod Alan Turing, physicist Erwin Schrödinger, and geneticist J.B.S. Haldane. Not surprisingly, the party comes to no single conclusion, but Casti's format provides a comprehensible, entertaining introduction to an important question, and to the ideas and personalities of some of the 20th century's most influential (and eccentric) thinkers.Read More

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  • Product Description

    Presents the ideas & thoughts of Erwin Schrodinger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J.B.S. Haldane, Alan Turing, & C.P. Snow on the issues of artificial intelligence, in the format of a novel involving a fictitious dinner given at Christs College in 1949. DLC: Artificial intelligence Philosophy.

  • 0201328283
  • 9780201328288
  • John L. Casti
  • 25 April 1998
  • Perseus Books,U.S.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 208
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