Interesting interview with the Director General of CERN, on how physics answers philosophical questions for good, yet needs philosophy to find answers to its own questions.

From Weekly Filet #20, in May 2011.

“We Are Crossing the Boundary Between Knowledge and Belief”

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Paris and the Data Mind

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