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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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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
— John Calvin
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No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.
— Anton Chekhov
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its…
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Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach…
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The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from…
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Those who say they understand Chess, understand nothing
— Unknown Author
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One who knows nothing can understand nothing
— Billy Zane
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Land. If you understand nothing else about the history of Indians in North America, you need to understand that the question that…
— Thomas King
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Too often we measure everything and understand nothing. The three most important things you need to measure in a business are customer…
— Jack Welch
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My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business
— John Searle
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I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.
— Louis L'Amour
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
— Edward Dahlberg
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