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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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Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have…
— Adolf Hitler
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Silence has many dimensions. It can be a regression and an escape, a loss of self, or it can be presence, awareness,…
— Thomas Merton
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...regrettable as it may seem to the idealist, the experience of history provides little warrant for the belief that real progress, and…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.
— Swami Vivekananda
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I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course…
— Vladimir Putin
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Comrades, just as the earth, after a long drought, pants for rain, so the workers of the world pant for the end…
— Grigory Zinoviev
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By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
— Piet Mondrian
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The priority must be the unification of the world titles to straighten things out. But we should not wait that long anymore…
— Anatoly Karpov
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I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but…
— Gavrilo Princip
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The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what…
— Gerard van der Leeuw
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