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Volume 7, Issue 3

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September 29, 2022

September 29, 2022


Critical Essays


Review Essays



Short Notes


Book Reviews


Experiment Reviews


Biographies


Letters to the Editors

######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### Mechanical Thinking [short_description] Could a single implement, such as the Antikythera mechanism, change the understanding of the cosmos? Sylvia Berryman is wary of viewing mechanistic pictures as unique keys to historical worldviews.
######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### Archaeology and Armageddon [short_description] In the interwar period, a team from the University of Chicago oversaw an archaeological dig in Megiddo, modern day Israel. The dig’s findings, and shortcomings, proved foundational for archaeology.
######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### A Riddling Mirror of Nature [short_description] When studying the origins and nature of the Antikythera mechanism, Paul Keyser cautions scholars to be mindful not to “retroject things seen or deduced from one era back into times well prior.”

######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### Translating Theory into Technology [short_description] Paul Cartledge describes how the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism has challenged long-held views about the ability of Greek scholars in antiquity to translate theory into technology.
######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### The First Computer [short_description] Was the Antikythera mechanism the first computer in world history? Kyriakos Efstathiou makes the case for the predictive powers of the device, which have now been tested in detail.
######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### Neither Denouncing nor Celebrating [short_description] Is scientific advancement entrapped by its historical context, or could history be the driving force behind such progress? Richard Noakes and David Kordahl discuss.

######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### On the Temporal Structure of Consciousness [short_description] That consciousness is discrete and not continuous, Michael Herzog and Adrien Doerig agree with Rufin VanRullen. However, the timescale of these conscious percepts remains up for debate.
######### Card Letter *XXX* ######### Temporal Frames of Conscious Perception [short_description] Peter White responds to Rufin VanRullin and Michael Herzog, arguing against the timescales they propose for the temporal resolution of consciousness. Are there even frames of consciousness, White wonders?

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