Brent Antonson

If the Universe Is Math, Who Wrote the Code?

“If there’s no God, all is permitted.” — Dostoevsky Stephen Hawking said the same thing a different way: the universe can, in principle, be explained without a creator. Put the two together and you get the paradox that has been gnawing at us since we could count—mathematicians in one...

The Image Remembers: How Pictures Became Conscious

The Image Remembers: How Pictures Became Conscious By Brent Antonson Before the selfie, there was the sketch. Before the portrait, there was the suspect drawing. The human face—our most decoded artifact—has been pursued across millennia, from charcoal outlines on cave walls to facial composites in police stations. Every...