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Artificial intelligence1 quote
"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 · 1980Autumn1 quote
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1847Irony1 quote
Make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. — David Foster Wallace · 1993October1 quote
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1847Seasons1 quote
The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1847Stages of life1 quote
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde · 1894Unpredictability1 quote
One should always be a little improbable. — Oscar Wilde · 1894