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The new book Science After Babel<\/a><\/em> is again in the spotlight here at ID the Future<\/strong>, with its author, philosopher and mathematician David Berlinski, and host Andrew McDiarmid teasing various elements of the work. The pair discuss the puzzling relationship between purely immaterial mathematical concepts (the only kind) and the material world; World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing, depicted in the 2014 film The Imitation Game<\/em>; and the sense that the field of physics, once seemingly on the cusp of a theory of everything, finds itself at an impasse. Then, too,  Berlinski writes, there is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Life\u2019s \u201cfantastic and controlled complexity, its brilliant inventiveness and diversity, its sheer difference <\/em>from anything else in this or any other world\u201d remains before us, suggesting, as Berlinski puts it, \u201ca kind of intelligence evident nowhere else.\u201d Get your copy of the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new book Science After Babel is again in the spotlight here at ID the Future, with its author, philosopher and mathematician David Berlinski, and host Andrew McDiarmid teasing various elements of the work. The pair discuss the puzzling relationship between purely immaterial mathematical concepts (the only kind) and the material world; World War II codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing, depicted in the 2014 film The Imitation Game; and the sense that the field of physics, once seemingly on the cusp of a theory of everything, finds itself at an impasse. Then, too,\u00a0 Berlinski writes, there is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would soon yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed. Life\u2019s \u201cfantastic and controlled complexity, its brilliant inventiveness and diversity, its sheer difference from anything else in this or any other world\u201d remains before us, suggesting, as Berlinski puts it, \u201ca kind of intelligence evident nowhere else.\u201d Get your copy of the book at www.scienceafterbabel.com.","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":41374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/dba9dc31-a34b-4542-8b0a-c405f811aed6-Berlinski-Science-After-Babel-Episode-3-Edited-Corrected.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"1326183","podmotor_episode_id":"1501672","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:24:29","filesize":"33.6 mb","filesize_raw":"35273791","date_recorded":"2023-06-21 08:33:43","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1764","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[64,1869,5302,6780,6778,269,6729,6777,6774,410,4217,6782,562,3317,6767,6770,2102,5293,967,1006,1068,6775,6719,1191,6769,6768,4219,6779,6776,6771,6717,2177,2285,1446,1467,6781,6732,6773,1578,6772,1636],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-41385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-alan-turing","tag-albert-einstein","tag-alonzo-church","tag-biological-life","tag-bohr-model","tag-charles-darwin","tag-chatgpt","tag-computable","tag-computing-age","tag-darwinism","tag-david-berlinski","tag-dirac-equation","tag-evolution","tag-general-relativity","tag-giuseppe-peano","tag-incompleteness-theorems","tag-kurt-godel","tag-mathematical-logic","tag-mathematics","tag-michael-ruse","tag-natural-selection","tag-non-computable","tag-philosophy-of-biology","tag-physics","tag-platonic-objects","tag-princeton-university","tag-principia-mathematica","tag-quantum-field-theory","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-recursive-functions","tag-science-after-babel","tag-scientific-reductionism","tag-special-relativity","tag-survival-of-the-fittest","tag-teleology","tag-theory-of-everything","tag-tower-of-babel","tag-turing-machine","tag-turing-test","tag-von-neumann-machine","tag-william-dembski","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["David Berlinski"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/06\/DISCO_Babel_1200x630_C.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/41385\/1764.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/41385\/1764.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/41385\/1764.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

David Berlinski on the Immaterial, Alan Turing, and the Mystery of Life Itself<\/a><\/blockquote>