· Here is a curious moment from something recently published on the web. The article is "The Kekulé Problem" by Cormac McCarthy, published on the Nautilus site [link]. What caught my eye, however, lies in the introduction to the article. That intro begins: Cormac McCarthy is best known to the world as a writer of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 8 mins. · The “committee” that McCarthy mentions in the early portion of the Oprah () interview linked to above likely derived from a quotation from Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck: “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” And the “mathematician at MIT” refers to Donald J. Newman. Read Cormac McCarthy’s First Work of Non-Fiction, “The Kekulé Problem,” a Provocative Essay on the Origins of Language. Few English writers of the early twentieth century had the rhetorical zest and zeal of novelist, journalist, and Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton, and few could have so ably taken on the formidable intellect of H.G. Wells. Chesterton.
Nautilus is a different kind of science magazine. We deliver big-picture science by reporting on a single monthly topic from multiple perspectives. Read a new chapter in the story every Thursday. The "committee" that McCarthy mentions in the early portion of the Oprah () interview linked to above likely derived from a quotation from Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck: "It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it." And the "mathematician. Consciousness is a hard problem because it is emergent, mixes software and hardware, and is dizzyingly self-referential. It's harder still because, in a sense, it impossible to study directly. The Kekulé Problem: Where did language come from? by Cormac McCarthy.
Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem by Cormac McCarthy. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Start by marking “Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem” as Want to Read: Want to Read. saving. Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem. by Cormac McCarthy 7 minutes. Save for Later. Save Cormac McCarthy Returns to the Kekulé Problem For Later. Robert Musil, in his Man Without Qualities, wrote that a Soul is “That which crawls away and hides whenever someone mentions algebra.”. According to his friend, Elias Canetti, Musil “felt at home and seemed natural among scientists,” as distinct from most “people against whom his only defense was silence.”. I call it the Kekulé Problem because among the myriad instances of scientific problems solved in the sleep of the inquirer Kekulé’s is probably the best known. He was trying to arrive at the configuration of the benzene molecule and not making much progress when he fell asleep in front of the fire and had his famous dream of a snake coiled in a hoop with its tail in its mouth—the ouroboros of mythology—and woke exclaiming to himself: “It’s a ring.
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