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Talk by Ronen Grunberg

(API Fall Social Party @ Aw Shucks, Aurora 12.10.23)

Talk by Shishir Lakhani

‘Art’ A Breathing Room for My Spirit 

According to Graeber and Wengrow, for “the vast majority of human social experience”, we enjoyed “three primordial freedoms”:
 1. The freedom to move,
 2. The freedom to disobey

“It is significant that the Bank of Canada is now explicitly using the expression ‘policy rate of interest’.

Back in the day, when I was teaching university courses in ‘Money and Banking’, it was identified simply as the ‘overnight rate’, i.e., the rate determined in the overnight market for ‘federal funds’ (to use the American term).

It required some effort in those days to demonstrate to the students that it really was a policy variable. Now the Canadian central bank openly admits it.”

Never limited by categories, his free-ranging intellect delved into physics, probability and anthropology, establishing him as a major thinker.  

By Alex Williams  

This news release today is from a science conference currently taking place in NY City June (2023). It announces that neuroscientists have not demonstrated how the brain produces consciousness, and that, by a very public "bet" 25 years ago made between a neuroscientist and a philosopher, that the philosopher won. 

While robots and automation have the potential to greatly enhance our lives and increase efficiency in various areas, including domestic service, there are indeed certain dangers associated with over-reliance on robots in this context. Here are a few concerns to consider:

"Downton Abbey" is a British historical drama television series that aired from 2010 to 2015. The show is set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey and depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants in the early 20th century.