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...Bennett asks us to consider our brains as the most wonderful machine, a machine which is the only thing in this world that we can control. As he writes: I am simply bent on calling your attention to a fact which has perhaps wholly or partially escaped you -- namely, that you are the mo...

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...n their small safe bubbles -- and they don't even know it. Batteries of a machine race? Hardly. 'Batteries' of the System that keeps people containe... ... accepting it, by becoming a part of it, they power the self-perpetuating machine. But in the end, is it really so far of a stretch? Humans don’t wan... ...d to believe that everything is black and white, that we were "good" and "machines were bad", and that that was all there was to it. I fell into it ... ...sired the right to choose, the right to live, and because they were "only Machines", the humans treated them much like white people treated people o... ...ere far superior simply out of being human -- sought to destroy them. The Machines, as any being concerned with survival would, fought back. And the... ... first place. Am I saying this this world, right now, is on the brink of a Machine war? I don’t know -- maybe not. Although if it’s signs you’re look... ...nough terrifying ones already; I keep up with the development of sentient Machines. But the point is that it doesn’t matter how it happens. Humans l... ... business. And whether it be a war for freedom between humans and sentient Machines, or humans killing each other on a massive global scale because t... ...f someone can be shown something that was presented to them as a "killing machine with only one function: search and destroy" by the media, and be s...

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...ina merge repede” se zice literar “La voiture va vite”, dar în creol ă – “Machine na couwioe vite”! Iar “Te iubesc” se zice literar “Je t’aime”, dar...

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...sted, and shown in open day, with all his parts and all its springs, that great machine, or mystery of iniquity, which we call Antichrist, which beg... ... subject of which we now treat. The world is properly used of the whole immense machine of the universe, and also more immediately it is used of this...

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...nd on the other hand business, creeping along the ground (smoothly like a machine or slovenly and organically), are separated from one another. But... ... the leaders have now only the semblance of control over the madly racing machines. And in this moment, as you speak, you can hear as I. do that th... ...od while men imagine they see a structure moving where for a long time a machine has been whirling. . The matter is indeed not to be helped by the ... ... taken as though in a reality. He sees the beings around him, indeed, as machines, capable of various achievements, which must be taken into accou...

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...one can we obtain light or make our household appliances and all the other machines that we need work. Our quality of life is based on the ability t...

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...HE POWER IN YOU 58 tinuously overtaxed. No one has been able to create a machine to equal the human heart and I venture to say no one ever will. S...

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...L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics II. Parapsychology and the Paranormal III. Turing Machines and Universes IV. The Science of Superstitions G O D... ...ngs - why did evolution resort to the false perception of continuum? And how can a machine which is bound to be discrete by virtue of its "naturaln... ...echnical Note about Ambiguity and Vagueness The Basic Dilemma of the Artist Turing Machines and Universes Born Aliens The Manifold of Sense Surpa... ...Existence Being John Malkovich The Shattered Identity The Matrix Return Turing Machines and Universes In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a... ...se methods were so called because they could, in principle, be performed by simple machines (or human-computers or human- calculators, to use Turing... ...lculation methods. Turing went further down Church's road and designed the "Turing Machine" a machine which can calculate the values of all the f... ...d using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Machine in the rest of this text) was really an effective or mec... ...eory itself) were not recursive, meaning that they could not be solved by a Turing Machine. No one succeeded to prove that a function must be recu... ...these attempts are reducible or equivalent to TM computable functions). The Turing Machine itself, though abstract, has many "real world" features....

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...only be explained by inferring an intelligent designer, in the same way that one would infer a designer if one came across an intricately complicated machine. Philo presents several objections to this argument, with rejoinders by Cleanthes and occasional interjections by Demea. (Summary by Leon Mire)...

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...not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, tosatisfy that idea of government whi... ...s buried.” The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, ... ...ble that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counter... ...eat evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have s... ...e, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nat... ... at large again. If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: per chance it will wear smoo... ...ment, let it go, let it go: per chance it will wear smooth—certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rop... ...hen I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myse... ...snivel about it. I am not responsible for the successful work ing of the machinery of society. I am not the son of the engineer. I perceive that, ...

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...th the variety of movements performed by the different automata, or moving machines fabricated by human industry, and that with help of but few pieces... ...und in the body of each animal. Such persons will look upon this body as a machine made by the hands of God, which is incompa rably better arranged, ... ...ly better arranged, and adequate to movements more ad mirable than is any machine of human invention. And here I specially stayed to show that, were ... ...human invention. And here I specially stayed to show that, were there such machines exactly resembling organs and outward form an ape or any other irr... ...in any respect of a different nature from these animals; but if there were machines bearing the image of our bodies, and capable of imitating our acti... ...s in order to declare our thoughts to others: for we may easily conceive a machine to be so constructed that it emits vocables, and even that it emits... ...ON THE METHOD 37 intellect can do. The second test is, that although such machines might execute many things with equal or perhaps greater perfection... ...ion; whence it must be morally impos sible that there should exist in any machine a diversity of organs sufficient to enable it to act in all the occ... ...ince address and practice are required in order so to make and adjust the machines described by me as not to overlook the smallest particular, I shou...

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...heart than he did chess problems, or the ingenious con- struction of a new machine. Besides this, Konstantin Levin was not at his ease with his brothe... ...the theory of cow-keeping, based on the principle that the cow is simply a machine for the trans- formation of food into milk, and so on. He talked of... ...in Levin’s knowledge of farming. General principles, as to the cow being a machine for the production of milk, she looked on with suspicion. It seemed... ...he should keep his wits about him, so as to try not to break the winnowing machines, the horse rakes, the thrashing machines, that he should attend to... ...it was owing to those acres being so much easier to mow. He sent out a hay machine for pitching the hay— it was broken at the first row because it was... ...ers in the serf times used various improvements in our husbandry: dry- ing machines and thrashing machines, and carting ma- nure and all the modern im... ...s the tires of the wheels for drink, drops bits of iron into the thrashing machine, so as to break it. He loathes the sight of any- thing that’s not a... ...culture in the serf days was by no means too high, but too low. We have no machines, no good stock, no efficient supervision; we don’t even know how t... ...u, there won’t be any profit.” “Why do they spoil things? A poor thrashing machine, or your Russian presser, they will break, but my steam press they ...

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... for every Barbarian’ s head, or setting fire to their camp with ships and machines. His colleague Gisco, on the other hand, wished them to be paid. B... ...red like billows around her, and the slightest storm shook this formidable machine. The treasury was exhausted by the Roman war and by all that had be... ...moved in a single body , and seemed to live like an animal and work like a machine. T wo cohorts of elephants flanked it in regular array; quivering, ... ...clature (which changed several times in the course of the centuries) these machines might be reduced to two systems: some acted like slings, and the r... ... the gaiety of their work they gave utterance to jests on the names of the machines. Thus the plyers for seizing the rams were called “wolves,” and th... ...e jokes, which were ever the same, kept up their courage. Nevertheless the machines did not demolish the rampart. It was formed of two walls and was c... ... Spendius went on obstinately with the siege. He sought to invent terrible machines such as had never before been con- structed. The other Barbarians,... ...them to fight on the same level. The top of it should be paved so that the machines might be rolled along. Then Carthage would find it quite impossibl... ...igher, all the material in the arsenals piled up in the Acropolis, and the machines repaired once more. Sinews taken from bulls’ necks, or else stags’...

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...itution with lifts, vacuum cleaners, electric lighting, steam heating, and machinery that turns the kitchen into a labora- tory and engine house combi... ... But just as the best carpenter or mason will resist the introduction of a machine that is likely to throw him out of work, or the public technical ed... ... lazy ways of teaching are based on the cheapness of frogs and rabbits. If machines were as cheap as frogs, engineers would not only be taught the ana... ... were as cheap as frogs, engineers would not only be taught the anatomy of machines and the functions of their parts: they would also have machines mi...

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...ousand pities Miss Elliot’s not with us. This one sees to nothing— she’s a machine.... Figurez-vous que la petite?...” And Darya Alexandrovna describe... ... the cart. “Oh! They all rode by here not long since, to look at a reaping machine. They’ll be home by now. And who will you be belonging to?...” “We’... ...e char-a-banc. They had gone out to look at the work- ing of a new reaping machine. When the carriage stopped, the party on horseback 72 Anna Karenin... ... topic, so as to draw the steward into talk. “Have you ever seen a reaping machine?” she said, ad- dressing Darya Alexandrovna. “We had just ridden ov... ...in her beautiful white hands covered with rings, and began showing how the machine worked. It was clear that she saw nothing would be understood from ... ...in ganz einfaches Ding,” and he began to explain the construc- tion of the machine. “It’s a pity it doesn’t bind too. I saw one at the Vienna exhibiti... ...d that she knew there was something charming in her disquisitions upon the machine that had been no- ticed by Sviazhsky. This new trait of girlish coq... ...easant. Sviazhsky began talking of Levin, describing his strange view that machinery is simply pernicious in its effects on Russian agriculture. “I ha... ...s M. Levin,” Vronsky said, smiling, “but most likely he has never seen the machines he condemns; or if he has seen and tried any, it must have been af...

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...ll home bred, grey, well fed, strong and devoid of blemish. The threshing machine worked in a roofed barn, the forage was kept in a separate shed, an... ...upplied him every day with large bundles of fresh straw from the threshing machine. He used to lie the whole day long on the fragrant straw, with fres... ... as he was himself, when he was thrashing his own corn with a horse driven machine. “Tell them I’ll come – I’ll come at lunch time. I’ve got to go to ... ...se, gave the money to his wife, and went to his neighbour’s. The thrashing machine was humming, and the driver was shouting. The lean horses were goin... ...re gathering great armfuls of corn and handing them to the men to feed the machine. The work was in full swing. In the kitchen garden, which Mitri had... ...an to work vigorously, rak ing the corn together and throwing it into the machine. The work went on without interruption until the din ner hour. The... ....” Martha obeyed. The beggar went away. The man in charge of the thrashing machine got up, said grace, thanked his hosts, and went away to rest. Mitri... ...other slaves, toiling in factories to produce samovars, silver, carriages, machines, and the like for their use. They live among these horrors, seeing...

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...of him. He was so far from anyone who cared about him, so lost in the vast machine. He was telling him- self that he’ d never get on, would never get ... ...it gave him did not compensate for the feeling he had of being lost in the machine, of being as helpless as a sheep in a flock. Hours passed. They sta... ... P PAR AR AR AR ART T T T T THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MA THREE: MACHINES CHINES CHINES CHINES CHINES I I I I I THE FIELDS and the misty blu... ...ing and the sky sparkled with exploding shrapnel. The “put, put, put” of a machine gun had begun somewhere. Chrisfield strode up the hill in step with... ..., like the ocean, vaster and freer than the ocean. “Sarge says a delousin’ machine’s comin’ through this way soon.” “We need it, Chris.” Andrews pulle... ...they heard a sound of artillery and nearer the “put, put, put” of isolated machine guns. The leaves of the trees about them, all shades of brown and c... ...lking as fast as he could up the lane, swinging his arms wildly. “Seen any machine-gun nests?” “Not a one.” “Hum.” He followed the lieutenant, who wal... ...ever. All at once they saw sunlight ahead of them and olive-drab uniforms. Machine guns started firing all around them in a sudden gust. Chrisfield fo... ...ow. The whip-like sound of rifles had chimed in with the stuttering of the machine guns. Little white clouds sailed above him in a blue sky, and in fr...

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.... I wouldn’t have said, ‘Anna, ma chere’! He’s not a man, he’s an official machine. He doesn’t understand that I’m your wife, that he’s outside, that ... ... for twelve o’clock. In the next room they were talking about some sort of machines, and swindling, and coughing their morning coughs. They did not re...

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...ave sent her away, only I thought perhaps you wanted her to talk into your machines. I hope I’ve not done wrong; but really you see such queer people ... ...r book of photographs. When you feel lonely with- out me, you can turn the machine on. It’s got no feelings to hurt. HIGGINS. I can’t turn your soul o...

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...s and hampers of cheeses, from which sticky straw stuck out. Near the corn-machines clucking hens passed their necks through the bars of flat cages. T... ...the corn, which, being ground, is made into a powder by means of ingenious machinery, comes out thence under the name of flour, and from there, transp... ...m was that it would cost him nothing. Bovary even undertook to provide the machine for the operation. This generosity was an idea of Emma’ s, and Char... ...ear walking properly . Then Charles, having buck- led his patient into the machine, went home, where Emma, all anxiety, awaited him at the door. She t... ...phopode?” The strephopode was writhing in hideous convulsions, so that the machine in which his leg was enclosed was knocked against the wall enough t... ...d about to burst, and it was covered with ecchymosis, caused by the famous machine. Hippolyte had already complained of suffering from it. No attentio... ...Hippolyte being unable to endure it any longer, they once more removed the machine, and were much surprised at the result they saw. The livid tumefact... ... “Where you like,” said Leon, forcing Emma into the cab. And the lumbering machine set out. It went down the Rue Grand-Pont, crossed the Place des Art... ...perintending three workmen, who panted as they turned the large wheel of a machine for mak- ing seltzer-water. Homais gave them some good advice. He e...