The Most Human Human (42 page)

39
Hofstadter,
Gödel, Escher, Bach
.

40
Kundera,
Unbearable Lightness of Being
.

41
Timothy Ferriss, interview with Leon Ho,
Stepcase Lifehack
, June 1, 2007.

42
Heather McHugh, “In Ten Senses: Some Sentences About Art’s Senses and Intents” (lecture, University of Washington, Solomon Katz Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities, December 4, 2003).

43
Forrest Gander,
As a Friend
(New York: New Directions, 2008).

44
Claude Shannon, “Prediction and Entropy of Printed English,”
Bell System Technical Journal
30, no. 1 (1951), pp. 50–64.

45
Shannon, “Mathematical Theory of Communication.”

1
David Levy,
Love and Sex with Robots
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007).

2
Robert Epstein, “My Date with a Robot,”
Scientific American Mind
, June/July 2006.

3
Garry Kasparov,
How Life Imitates Chess
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2007).

4
Ray Kurzweil,
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
(New York: Viking, 2005).

5
bacteria rule the earth: See Stephen Jay Gould,
Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
(New York: Harmony Books 1996).

1
The idea of the Cornell box dates back to Cindy M. Goral, Kenneth E. Torrance, Donald P. Greenberg, and Bennett Battaile, “Modeling the Interaction of Light Between Diffuse Surfaces,”
Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings)
18, no. 3 (July 1984), pp. 213–22.

2
Devon Penney, personal interview.

3
Eduardo Hurtado, “Instrucciones para pintar el cielo” (“How to Paint the Sky”), translated by Mónica de la Torre, in
Connecting Lines: New Poetry from Mexico
, edited by Luis Cortés Bargalló and Forrest Gander (Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books, 2006).

4
Bertrand Russell, “In Praise of Idleness,” in
In Praise of Idleness, and Other Essays
(New York: Norton, 1935).