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... machine that explains purposeful organization: it is organic functions that explain machines. The distinguishing mark of actual machines, even the most lifelike of computers, is that its powers and functions are derivative: their ...
... machine that explains purposeful organization: it is organic functions that explain machines. The distinguishing mark of actual machines, even the most lifelike of computers, is that its powers and functions are derivative: their ...
Page 96
... machine is theoretically possible, this supposed feat rests on an innocent self-deception. Who gives those directions for self-replication to a machine? Certainly not the machine itself, or an ancestral model. No machine finds the ...
... machine is theoretically possible, this supposed feat rests on an innocent self-deception. Who gives those directions for self-replication to a machine? Certainly not the machine itself, or an ancestral model. No machine finds the ...
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... machine. Correctly, he pointed out that the machine is an extension of man's organic properties, a further development of his bodily gifts, enlarging their range and adding new qualities, as musical instruments extend the range and ...
... machine. Correctly, he pointed out that the machine is an extension of man's organic properties, a further development of his bodily gifts, enlarging their range and adding new qualities, as musical instruments extend the range and ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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