MetaState: Science Since Babylon, part 1

The instruction manual is only discovered after refusing to read the instructions. The wonders of a scientific mind are both abstract as they are mechanical. The history of mechanical minds can be abstracted in the poetry of doing more things imperfectly as perfection is the unreliable narrator we deserve but don't need right now.  1729 is the answer, but to what? We dive into the metropolitan fold of Derek de Solla Price's anthology of hat tips to the curious peculiarities of bygone eras. Automata for the people...If you believe there's nothing up his sleeve...Then nothing is cool --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremy-bentham/support