While on the sex offender registry Epstein was exchanging emails with Harvard and Yale professors about time travel

The tone of the emails suggested familiarity. Rather than introductory messages, they resembled conversations between colleagues exchanging ideas.

Correspondence With Yale Computer Scientist David Gelernter

Another academic named in the exchanges is David Gelernter, a prominent computer science professor at Yale University.

In emails cited in the reports, Gelernter discussed conceptual ideas similar to those appearing in the Harvard exchanges. These included speculative themes about:

consciousness and computation