Affiliate Links for the Books: Alva Nöe: Action in Perception: https://amzn.to/3kRWcV8 Rainer Maria Rilke: Duineser Elegien https://amzn.to/3F3LiCt Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt: The Coddling of the American mind: https://amzn.to/3YvyY4O Podcast Info: Website: http://www.thinkersandmakers.eu Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0dpi58lTuwYmgzvRq1U4Td Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1673833614 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2030278.rss Instagram: http://instagram.com/thinkersandmakers.eu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/fridowicke Description:  In Conversation with the Host Friedrich Wicke, Prof. Oliver Brock talks about his early StartUp and Academic career in California, differences between the US and Berlin, the Science of Intelligence, Soft Robotics, Paradigms of Computation, Simplicity in Science, acoustic sensing and the Quest to build an artificial Hand. 0:00 Intro 01:25 Studies, Liberal Arts 04:38 Accidentally getting into Stanford 09:20 Early Career in Academia and at a StartUp 17:11 Return to Berlin, US vs. Europe 21:08 Science of Intelligence, Coordinating big Research Projects 28:56 Soft Robotics 35:58 Applications of Soft Robotics 39:14 Building an Artificial Hand 59:18 Book Recommendations