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Have the student editors of the prestigious Harvard Law Review (HLR) unfairly boosted Black and Latino authors to the detriment of Asian and white authors? What if we combined Google Scholar, a search engine for academics, with ChatGPT or Google … Continue reading →

The music of this great jazz legend will live on …

Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this stirring tribute to many of the now-deceased cast members and guest stars of the original Star Trek series: “Remembering the Original ‘Star Trek’ Stars We’ve Lost, From Spock to Scotty and Beyond“. Shout … Continue reading →

I want to conclude my series on “Kurt Gödel and the Leibniz Conspiracy” with the following observation about Franz Neumann’s influential 1957 essay on conspiracy theories[1]: Neumann, with his focus on “anxiety” and “politics”, has opened up a veritable Pandora’s … Continue reading →

Yesterday, we turned to Franz L. Neumann’s influential 1957 essay on “Anxiety and Politics” to explore the inner logic of Kurt Gödel’s conspiracy theory, or what I like to call “The Leibniz Conspiracy”. In brief, according to Neumann (1957, p. … Continue reading →

In my previous posts (see here, here, and here), I provided some historical background regarding Gottfried Leibniz’s efforts to develop a universal symbolic language (characteristica universalis) and universal thinking machine (calculus ratiocinator), and I also mentioned how one of Leibniz’s … Continue reading →

N.B.: I will resume my series on “Kurt Gödel and the Leibniz Conspiracy” in my next post. Building on my previous blog posts on this subject (see here, here, here, and here), I have just posted this short paper to … Continue reading →

I will resume my series on “The Leibniz Conspiracy” in the next day or two; in the meantime, here is some melancholic music by North American country artist Morgan Wallen from his 2021 studio album, Dangerous: The Double Album: Fun fact: … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in my previous two posts (see here and here), it was Kurt Gödel who posited the existence of a centuries-long conspiracy to conceal Leibniz’s efforts to develop a universal symbolic language (characteristica universalis) and universal thinking machine … Continue reading →