I recently read Turing’s Cathedral, a book about the early history of computers, and it largely focused on the life and brilliant times of John von Neumann, who was, to put it simply, a genius. It is both fascinating and disappointing to learn about a brain that works so much better than your own. Fascinating because the wide spectrum of human ability has led to a brain so capable. That we (in the general, humanity sense of “we”) are able to perform such feats is incredible.
