Stephen Pearlman Biography
Stephen Pearlman was an American actor. He appeared in films including The Iceman Cometh, Xanadu, Green Card, Quiz Show, The First Wives Club, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Private Parts, Pi (1998), and The Horse Whisperer. He had a recurring role on Husbands, Wives & Lovers. He also guest starred on TV series including Kojak, Barney Miller, Benson, Trapper John MD, LA Law, Kate & Allie, Law & Order, and Seinfeld.
He also appeared in the mini-series A Woman Named Jackie.
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Consciousness and Patterns in Computation
Sol Robeson: [[computers; [sense]
Certain programs cause ] to get stuck in a particular loop. The loop leads to meltdown but just before the crash, they become aware of their own structure. The computer has a ] of its own silicon nature and it prints out the ingredients.
Maximillian Cohen:
The computer becomes conscious?
Sol Robeson:
In some ways, I guess.
Maximillian Cohen:
Studying the pattern made Euclid conscious of itself. I had to... Before it died it spit out the number. That consciousness is the number?
Sol Robeson:
No, Max. It's only a nasty bug.
Maximillian Cohen:
It's more than that, Sol.
Sol Robeson: [[dead; [end; [nothing]
No, it's not. It's a ] ]. There's ] there.
Maximillian Cohen: [[door]
It's a ], Sol. It's a door.
Sol Robeson:
A door at the front of a cliff. You're driving yourself over the edge.
Rabbi Cohen: [[Talmud; [Second Temple|second temple]
The ] tells us it began 2,000 years ago, when the Romans destroyed the ].
Maximillian Cohen:
What is this?
Rabbi Cohen: [[W:Cohanim|Cohanim; [W:Holy of Holies|Holy of Holies; [w:God in Judaism|God; [Ark of the Covenant|Ark of the Tabernacle; [Ten Commandments|ten commandments; [Moses; [Yom Kippur; [Jerusalem; [W:Messianic Age|Messianic Age; [w:Shem HaMephorash|the true name of God]
Max, you will understand everything if you listen... The Romans also destroyed our priesthood, the ]. And with their deaths, they destroyed our greatest secret. In the center of the temple was the heart of the Jewish life, the ]. It was the earthly residence of our ]. The one God. It housed the ], which stored the original ] which God gave to ]. Only one man was allowed to enter this Holy of Holies on one day, the holiest day of the year, ]. On the Day of Atonement, all of Israel would descend upon ] to watch the High Priest, the Cohen Godul, make his trip to the Holy of Holies. If the High Priest was pure, he would emerge moments later and we were secured a prosperous year. It meant that we were closer to the ]. But, if he was impure, he would die instantly and it meant that we were doomed. The Holy Priest had one ritual to perform in the Holy of Holies, he had to intone a single word... That word, was ].
Maximillian Cohen:
So?
Rabbi Cohen:
The true name, which only the Cohanim knew, was 216 letters long.
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