Todd HyltonTodd Hylton is a physicist and technologist with a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford and the author of Surfing the Cut: The Uncomputable Nature of Things. He spent decades in advanced science and emerging technologies, including materials research robotics, and brain-inspired computing, and he launched DARPA's SyNAPSE initiative. His inquiry into intelligence and the limits of computation led him to develop thermodynamicalism, a philosophy that views the world as an emergent, evolving system shaped by uncertainty, discontinuity, and creative potential. Today, he resides in La Jolla, California, with his wife, Susan. Read More Read Less