Question Technology: Minds and machines

Sunday, July 26, 2009

Minds and machines

"Determinism. How romantic to think the mind a machine reliable enough to transform the same causes over and over again into the same effects. When even toasters fail!"

- James Richardson, from Vectors: Aphorisms & Ten-Second Essays

Jul 26, 2009 12:02:10 AM | Books, Society, Technology

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