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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world…
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Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism
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Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of…
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We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is…
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It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,…
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Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but…
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
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In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so…
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I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly…
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Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed
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Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you…
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You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer.
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The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be…
— Tadao Ando
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We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world…
— John Searle
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I was very competitive with my brothers when I was younger. Now we are all in completely different worlds. Im not in…
— Alec Baldwin
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You don’t read, you don’t understand. You don’t know what it’s like to live in different worlds, to travel on great adventures…
— Atticus Shaffer
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Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend were…
— Philip Glass
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Pro-choice and pro-life activists live in different worlds, and the scope of their lives, as both adults and children, fortifies them in…
— Unknown Author
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With me, it's so eclectic and all over the map that no one knows what to expect, ... It may not be…
— Joan Osborne
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She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed…
— Susan Wiggs
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There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.
— Mark Knopfler
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I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North…
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in…
— Iris Apfel
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Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the…
— Nelson Goodman
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