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“While some later commentators have presumed that Turing saw the human mind as a sort of biological Turing Machine, the thesis suggests that, at least in 1938, he saw it more as a somewhat unreliable oracle machine—as a Turing Machine supplemented by an additional element that cannot be reduced to mechanical rules.”
― Language and the Rise of the Algorithm
― Language and the Rise of the Algorithm
“..enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact...”
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
― The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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