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| Industry | Science |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Physicist |
| Location | Midland, Michigan, United States |
| Introduction | retired since 2009, still in Midland, MI, pursuing science and technology, also spending time in Philadelphia, PA, and in Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany, to be with children's families and the grandchildren. |
| Interests | science, artificial intelligence, levels of self-awareness and consciousness, the intermediate future (energy, water, air), the basis of moral and ethical values, replacing the concept of god by an acceptable myth, genetical engineering, cosmology and astrophysics, |
| Favorite movies | cinematography, non-Hollywood movies, independent films; e.g.: Lola rennt (Tykwer 1998), Drei (Tykwer 2010), You will meet a tall dark stranger (Allen 2010), la tête en friche (Becker 2010), |
| Favorite music | Mahler, traditional classics and much of what the Kronos Quartet performs, the staples from the 70s – Beatles, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Queen, ..., Adams, Ligeti, Reich, Glass, ... Jazz. |
| Favorite books | ... or rather, authors: James Joyce, Don DeLillo, Daniel Kahlmann ('Die Vermessung der Welt'), Philip Roth, Richard Dawkins, Yuval Harari ('Homo Deus'), |