“..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
“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
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