To: Brian Boyd
From: Jeffrey
Sent Tue 5/15/2012 4:05:17 AM
Subject Re: RE: Re:
Does he speak English
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On May 13, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Brian Boyd < wrote:
Stanislas Dehaene a Professor at the College de France,
and director of Neurospin, as well as author of The Number Sense, is certainly first rate.
He began his training as a mathematician (as you'd see from Wikipedia) but the work
he's known for has focused on how the brain processes number and letters in math and
reading, and how evolved aspects of the brain, which clearly did not evolve for these
very recent functions, have been "recycled," as he puts it, for these new uses. If these
things interest you, he da man. Maybe Martin could become interested in the math of
neuroscience (and also the neuroscience of math), if he's not already!
B
From: Jeffrey [mailtmjeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2012 7:49 a.m.
To: Brian Boyd
Subject: Re:
Pm in Paris , if you think there is a person of interest
Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone
On May 13, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Brian Boy ote:
As I think I told you, the Radcliffe literature and biology workshop I
attended just before meeting you was for me rather flat, not up with
the play. My best two days were the next, meeting you, Martin, and
Howard Gardner in the morning, and spending the evening with
Naomi Pierce of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and her
biologist friends, and the next day talking to Martin, speaking in his
institute, and attending the Society of Fellows dinner with him and
Naomi. Martin is certainly dazzling, voracious, and delightfully
quirky. Whether he will be able to do anything mathematical with
literature I'm not sure he knows, after pumping me, but I'm happy to
help if he can think of concrete mathematical ways into literature or
culture more generally.
The rest of the trip was mostly scenic and social except for the
Consilience conference in St. Louis, where it was good to talk, albeit
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briefly, to Ed Wilson, and to hear especially Robert Frank, that rare
beast, a deeply original economist, David Sloan Wilson, an always
inspirational biologist, neuroscientist David Linden, and
neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland, who gave me some good
research leads.
Have just spoken at the Auckland Writers Festival and made contact
with a woman also speaking there, author of The Woman Who
Changed Her Brain, whom I'll put in touch with neuroscientist
Stanislas Dehaene in Paris (author of The Number Sense, which you'd
enjoy, and of Reading in the Brain), since I think he'll be interested in
looking with his fMRI lab, the biggest in the world, at her work on
overcoming specific cognitive deficits, including some involved in
reading. As with Martin, there was perhaps too great a leap between
the literary level Pm interested in and what Stanislas can do so far with
fMRI, but maybe Barbara Arrowsmith's work will in this case at least
close some of the gap.
Great to meet you, your friend Leon (?), your bevy of beauties, and
Martin. Thanks so much for the opportunity!
This might amuse you:
http://www. thedailybeast.comfarticles/20 1 2/05/ 1 0/remembering-
dmitri-nabokov-the-novelist-s-son-and-literarv-executor.html
Best,
Brian
On 13/05/2012, at 8:54 PM, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:
how would you rate your trip?
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