In the age of artificial intelligence, comparing the human brain to a computer has become a common trope. The metaphor is convenient, suggesting ideas of memory banks, data processing, and logic ...

The ploy occasionally paid off; the London Daily Mirror described the Auto-Beatnik’s poetry as “better than most of the stuff that gets published in avant garde magazines.” Lately, this kind of junk ...

We don’t think of computers as something you’d find in the 17th century. But [Levi McClain] found plans for one in a book — books, actually — by [Athanasius Kirker] about music. The arca musarithmica, ...