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Modeling
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Listen, then repeat. Listen, then repeat. That was all it took to pretend well. What was a person’s self but carefully articulated mimicry?
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― An Unkindness of Ghosts
― An Unkindness of Ghosts

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As you know, there was a famous quarrel between Max Planck and Einstein, in which Einstein claimed that, on paper, the human mind was capable of inventing mathematical models of reality. In this he generalized his own experience because that is what he did. Einstein conceived his theories more or less completely on paper, and experimental developments in physics proved that his models explained phenomena very well. So Einstein says that the fact that a model constructed by the human mind in an i
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― Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology
― Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology

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