The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World, by Pedro Domingos

Professor Domingos has written a great book. However, one can be doubtful whether a computer/robot will ever be able to produce a work of art or to feel guilty. How the sciences fundamentally hang together is the central but neglected question in academia, a question difficult to resolve, because there is a fault line between nature and culture; man is a part of and apart from nature; we are a duality, a coin with two sides; having – like Janus – two faces, we are NOT our brains. So the quest for 'the master algorithm' depicted by Pedro Domingos might be futile. Perhaps universities and research institutes in the U.S.A. and elsewhere should be redesigned.