Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1991. Her father, Fischer Black, co-authored the Nobel Prize-winning Black-Scholes equation. Her memoir, You’ve Been So Lucky Already (Little A, 2018) was reviewed by The New York Times. Her peer-reviewed paper, Time and the body: a new approach to disease, was published in May.
About Alethea Black
Alethea Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1991. Her father, Fischer Black, co-authored the Nobel Prize-winning Black-Scholes equation. Her memoir, You’ve Been So Lucky Already (Little A, 2018) was reviewed by The New York Times. Her peer-reviewed paper, Time and the body: a new approach to disease, was published in May.
Articles with Alethea Black
Do We Need to Rethink Everything?
We know from cognitive science and neuroscience that the brain is not a passive observer, like a camera lens. The brain actively composes what we perceive. Still we persist, in all our endeavors – from trying to cure cancer to conceiving of a unified theory – to operate from a materialist perspective. Perhaps this needs to change.