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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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...nister or monomaniac people – there can be no Utopia. In H.G. Wells' book "The Time Machine", the hero wanders off to the third millennium only to c... ...bers are immortal, don't have to work, or think in order to survive. Sophisticated machines take care of all their needs. No one forbids them to ma... ...s the most virulent attack on capitalism in a long time. Greedy, thoughtless money machines in the form of billionaire tycoon-producers exploit Tru... ...im looking tubes and keeps them immersed in gelatinous liquid in cocoons. This new "machine species" derives its energy needs from the electricity p... ...and horror when we are faced with "resistant stains" of bacteria or with creatures, machines, or groups able to survive and thrive in extremely host... ...in intact but cease to interact. Does this amount to obliteration? And what about a machine that stops interacting with its environment altogether -... ...phizing aside – we are nothing but recursive, self aware, introspective, conscious machines. Special machines, no doubt, but machines all the same.... ...d of villain is a fixture in this psychodrama, in this parade of human phobias: the machine. James Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous... ...chine. James Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of ...

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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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...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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...ight have imagined. Because the similarities are not limited to the lascivious and bearded Mona Lisa, but also extend to the androgynous approach, to machine fascination, to the rendering of anatomy as a dynamic-pneumatic mechanics and even to the use of the form element The Glider. The second part is an interpretation of the ready-mades by Duchamp via the philosophy of...

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...ted the idea of animal rights. They regarded animals as the organic equivalents of machines, driven by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain ... ... the subject of the famous Turing Test: there is no effective way to distinguish a machine from a human when we rely exclusively on symbol manipula... ...s of the origin. Consider the software-mind metaphor. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical).... ...limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admittedly much more agile, versatile, non-linear, may... ...lation is by virtue of two facts: (1) Both the brain and the computer are "thinking machines" and (2) the latter is the product of the former. Thus,... ...nspire. At the dawn of computing, software applications were authored serially, in machine language and with strict separation of data (called: "st... ...lled: "structures") and instruction code (called: "functions" or "procedures"). The machine language reflected the physical wiring of the hardware. ... ... permutations define the set of all soluble problems. It can be proven that Turing Machines are a private instance of a general, much stronger, cla... ...integrated with object oriented ones, for instance. To run Java applets, a "virtual machine" needs to be embedded in the operating system. These ph...

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...ects have their abstract qualities. Laromiguière called our senses: machines of making abstractions. Mechanical Philosophy? Devices of produ... ... b) material ideas (embodied in art canvas, sculptures, architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness belong to us. Philoso... ...y Gilbert Ryle). Neutrosophic Existentialism: Life is, now, machinized. Machine is, now, humanized by science's sensorial improvements. 68 This... ...ing of strange, bizarre ideas. g) Futurist Philosophy: ideas created by machines, robots, computers using artificial intelligence; this is the ph... ... major evolutionary algorithms studied are: genetic algorithm (a model of machine learning based on genetic operators), evolutionary programming (a ...

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... are two intermediate steps between them. Neutrosophic logic is yet another idea generated by Florentin Smarandache, who seems to be a perpetual idea machine. Like classical logic, it can be used in many ways, everywhere from statistics to quantum mechanics. Neutrosophy is more than just a form of logic however. There are several different definitions, extending into many ...

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...idea generated by Florentin Smarandache, who seems to be a perpetual idea machine. Like classical logic, it can be used in many ways, everywhere fro...

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... time and energy were limited. For knowing a man truly, besides one person’s ability, other person’s help is needed in many cases, sometimes even the machine and the measuring appliance and so on are needed....

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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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...ous chieftain in these parts, the Sheikh Sidi el Assif, has a new American machine pistol which fires ten bullets without loadin; and his rifle has si... ...aynflete, in the Cadi’s jurisdiction. As the search will be conducted with machine guns, the prompt return of the travellers to Mogador Har- bor will ...

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...dropped all functions by the gods bestowed, 370 And, turned into a gewgaw, a machine, Sets like an Opera phantom. Thus, O Friend! Through times of hon...

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...leets through its sad duration rapidly: Then, like an useless and worn-out machine, _155 Rots, perishes, and passes. F F F F FAIR AIR AI... ...o fear, _75 Scarce living pulleys of a dead machine, Mere wheels of work and articles of trade, That grace the proud an... ... presides, Apportioning with irresistible law The place each spring of its machine shall fill; So that when waves on waves tumultuous heap _... ...e. It is impossible to believe that the Spirit that pervades this infinite machine begat a son upon the body of a Jewish woman; or is angered at the c... ...obedience: a soldier is, of all descriptions of men, the most completely a machine; yet his profession inevitably teaches him something of dogmatism, ...

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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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... own. I’ll be bound, Lady Ashton understands ev- 271 Sir Walter Scott ery machine for breaking in the human mind, and there are as many as there are ... ...hich could serve her object, and prepared at leisure every species of dire machinery by which the human mind can be wrenched from its settled determin...

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...nstitution was not merely as it is so often with us, a matter of political machinery. It was regarded as a way of life. Further, the constitution with... ...omings from that ideal, we must recognise that the state and all political machinery are as much the expression of man’s weakness as of his ideal poss... ...ession of the general will, and with attempts to ensure that the political machinery made to ex- press the general will shall not be exploited for pri... ...y convince himself of; for whatsoever is ex- ternal has its boundary, as a machine, and whatsoever is use- ful in its excess is either necessarily hur... ...ize to all cities, as well as everything else, whether animals, plants, or machines, for each of these, if they are neither too little nor too big, ha... ... and protection of walls more especially since so many missile weapons and machines have been most inge- niously invented to besiege cities with. Inde... ...on account of their extreme ductility, some people even now use particular machines that their bodies may not be dis- torted. It is also useful to enu...

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...s were then shaken by the receiving ves sel, which, moving like a winnowing machine, scat tered far away from one another the elements most unlike, ...

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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....