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David Gelernter

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David Gelernter


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in The United States
March 05, 1955

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David Hillel Gelernter (born March 5, 1955) is an artist, writer, and professor of computer science at Yale University. He is a former national fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow in Jewish thought at the Shalem Center, and sat on the National Endowment for the Arts. He publishes widely; his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, LA Times, Weekly Standard, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and elsewhere. His paintings have been exhibited in New Haven and Manhattan.

He is known for contributions to parallel computation and for books on topics including computed worlds ("Mirror Worlds"), and what he sees as the des
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The Tides of Mind: Uncoveri...

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1939: Lost World of Fair

3.69 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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Mirror Worlds: or the Day S...

3.83 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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America-Lite: How Imperial ...

3.51 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions
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Machine Beauty: Elegance An...

3.70 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions
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Drawing Life: Surviving the...

3.83 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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Americanism: The Fourth Gre...

3.53 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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The Muse in the Machine: Co...

4.04 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions
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Judaism: A Way of Being

3.73 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions
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The aesthetics of computing

3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions
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“Discouragement is a moral state, a failure of heart; you treat it by taking courage, not Prozac.”
David Gelernter, Drawing Life: Surviving the Unabomber
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“If this is the Information Age, what are we so informed about?”
David Gelernter

“A logical argument and a story are two ways of putting fragments in proper relationship and guessing where the whole sequence leads and how it gets there. This is the logic-versus-narrative axis. Spectrum Law: The mind is in business to make sense. Up-spectrum, it makes sense by making logic. Down-spectrum, it makes sense by creating stories.”
David Gelernter, The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness

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