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... less clever and hard - working than the molecular biologists , but they have made far less spectacular progress ; possibly even probably - this is because they have not yet discovered the right sub - units of the brain's functioning ...
... less clever and hard - working than the molecular biologists , but they have made far less spectacular progress ; possibly even probably - this is because they have not yet discovered the right sub - units of the brain's functioning ...
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... less fully worked out and watertight than the Theory of Information , as we shall find out in the next section . It seems always to be easier to make a Good Theory of something which is beside the point and boring than of anything which ...
... less fully worked out and watertight than the Theory of Information , as we shall find out in the next section . It seems always to be easier to make a Good Theory of something which is beside the point and boring than of anything which ...
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... less appropriate in particular circum- stances , and when particular tasks are being attempted . As we become more adept in the uses of each particular tool , we shall presumably come to see how they complement one another to make up a ...
... less appropriate in particular circum- stances , and when particular tasks are being attempted . As we become more adept in the uses of each particular tool , we shall presumably come to see how they complement one another to make up a ...
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