a review of:
The Man From the Future: The Visionary Life of John Von Neumann
By Ananyo Bhattacharya
Fortress of Logic
How the game theory of John von Neumann transformed the 20th century.
“If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.”
~ JVN
By David Nirenberg
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/john-von-neumann
Book:
@corlin He was quite prescient.
#CoSoPhilosophy
The Von Neumann Mind: Constructing Meaning
"Words possess what in philosophy is often called intentionality, after Franz Brentano, who applied this concept to the study of the mind in 1874. The word comes from Latin tendere, to stretch, and illustrates the idea that a symbol somehow ‘stretches out’ into the world, connecting with its referent."
by Jochen Szangolies
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2021/10/the-von-neumann-mind-constructing-meaning.html