Due to a chain of unfortunate events wholly outside of his control that gutted the funding behind young Frank Nischk’s planned hummingbird research, he found himself cooling his heels in Columbia for an extended period of time, and finally securing a new research project that rather than presenting him with the daily opportunity to marvel at Nature’s veritable flying jewels instead led to him daily staring intently at …
Examining the idea of “mind” as it does or may exist in a wide range of forms from biological to artificial, Mr. Ball envisions a “space of possible minds” through which he can lead his readers in consideration of a number of questions pertaining to minds that doesn’t privilege the human one.
Broken heart, in a heartbeat, bottom of one’s heart, half hearted, change of heart, heart is in the right place, heart of stone, heart of gold, heavy heart, lose one’s heart, young at heart… It would be difficult to think of another part of any anatomy that figures so largely as the heart.