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... consciousness , while machines resemble organisms in those higher functions associated with purposive designs . For millions of years organisms existed without benefit of any mechanisms except those which the creature itself could ...
... consciousness , while machines resemble organisms in those higher functions associated with purposive designs . For millions of years organisms existed without benefit of any mechanisms except those which the creature itself could ...
Page 311
... consciousness of superior living beings . No comatose space travel , no millennial hibernation , however intermi ... conscious anticipation of the human results , except in utopias and science- fiction fantasies . Though specific and ...
... consciousness of superior living beings . No comatose space travel , no millennial hibernation , however intermi ... conscious anticipation of the human results , except in utopias and science- fiction fantasies . Though specific and ...
Page 411
... consciousness , the patient may better understand his own nature and acquire insight into the conditions under which ... conscious exis- tence the evils that , if unidentified and unrecognized , will otherwise con- tinue to thwart him ...
... consciousness , the patient may better understand his own nature and acquire insight into the conditions under which ... conscious exis- tence the evils that , if unidentified and unrecognized , will otherwise con- tinue to thwart him ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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