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James Q. Wilson3 quotes
We must be careful of what we think we are, because we may become that. — James Q. Wilson · 1993The feelings on which people act are often superior to the arguments they employ. — James Q. Wilson · 1993In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. — James Q. Wilson · 1985John R. Searle2 quotes
"Could a machine think?" my own view is that only a machine could think, and indeed only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines that had the same causal powers as brains... Whatever else intentionality is, it is a biological phenomenon, and it is as likely to be as causally dependent on the specific biochemistry of its origins as lactation, photosynthesis, or any other biological phenomena. — John R. Searle · 1980The reason that no computer program can ever be a mind is simply that a computer program is only syntactical, and minds are more than syntactical. Minds are semantical, in the sense that they have more than a formal structure, they have a content. — John R. Searle · 1984Arthur Chapman1 quote
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
That's where the West begins. — Arthur Chapman · 1917