I’m at a meeting sponsored by Sandia National Labs here at the famous La Fonda hotel in Santa Fe. Last night I had dinner with two colleagues from the Santa Fe Institute where the discussion moved broadly across disciplines from Dennet’s views on religion to Jeff Hawkins new view of how the neocortex works. At the meeting itself there was a really interesting set of talks on the new quantum dot technology, which just now seems to be maturing to where it can be of practical use in cellular neuroscience. All of this in the absolutely unique milieu of Santa Fe–another place (like Woods Hole or La Jolla) where science is the lingua franca.
Today back across the country via Chicago to Washington where the rain storm of the last two hundred years has finally ended.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 