Tag: Nikola Kovachki

  • Escaping Flatland: Biological World Models and the Laplace Engine

    Escaping Flatland: Biological World Models and the Laplace Engine

    Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. More than two centuries ago, the French polymath Pierre-Simon Laplace conceptualized a powerful scientific thought experiment that would become known to history as Laplace’s Demon. If an intellect could know the exact positions and forces acting on every particle in the universe, nothing would be uncertain;…