Currently reading: Magisteria by Nicholas Spencer 📚
Science and region found themselves in various inconclusive — sometimes beneficial, sometimes fracturing — conversations. Whether it was anthropologists plumbing the depths of the past, freudians the depths of the mind, or soviet cosmonauts the depths of space, region and science seemed inextricably entangled and this sense of entanglement only seemed to grow as evolutionary biologists declared that humans were basically genes, neuroscientists: they were basically brain activity and Silicon Valley techno-utopians that they were basically algorithms.