Moshe Koppel: Artificial Intelligence and Torah [Prayer & Humanity 3/5]

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articles and recommended readings there is a fantastic short story that somebody told me in the library of why you I think one of the reasons why I remember it is because I was so enchanted with the author's name many of you may be familiar with him the famous author Jorge Borge I think I'm pronouncing that name correctly so if I didn't hear somebody else pronounce it I never would have thought that that is in fact how it's pronounced and the story which is one of his most popular he's a really phenomenal thinker philosopher one of the unique thinkers to live in the last the unique thinkers to live in the last 100 years he died in 1986 and Jorge Borge has this story called fumes the memories fumes the memorials is a story about a person named irenio fumes who I believe gets into like some like horse riding accident and because of the accident gets hit on the head he is able to remember everything does not forget a thing and the story is really a rumination about a world where there is no forgetting what would be What would life be like if we never forgot life be like if we never forgot everything if we always had access to all information this is actually not just a case in science fiction there was a real life story that was actually carried out by a neuropsychologist named Alexander luria who wrote a book about his interactions I'm curious from listeners Alexander luria is related to the famous luria family I assume that he is in some way but I don't really know much about his Jewish roots but he wrote a actual book about his interviews with a client with a patient when a butcher his name I believe he was also Jewish

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