Signal Processing and Integrated Circuits

Part I

Perspective

‘Science as it exists at present is partly agreeable, partly disagreeable. It is agreeable through the power which it gives us of manipulating our environment, and to a small but important minority, it is agreeable because it affords intellectual satisfaction. It is disagreeable because, however we may seek to disguise the fact, it assumes a determinism which involves, theoretically, the power of predicting human actions; in this respect, it seems to lessen human power.’

Bertrand Russell ‘Is Science Superstitious?’ (in ‘Sceptical Essays’)