
A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
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John Ousterhout on complexity as the core problem of software design: deep modules, information hiding and designing it twice.

John Searle argues that syntax isn't semantics — the Chinese Room — and that computation alone can't produce consciousness, then takes questions from Google engineers.

Steven Pinker explains how language reveals the concepts of space, time, causation and force that structure human thought.

Daniel Kahneman discusses the two systems of thinking from his book Thinking, Fast and Slow.
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