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... intelligence is unimpaired . " " The intelligence is unimpaired . " That is only another way of saying , in fact , that this sort of intelligence is , in terms of life , innately defective , since it can never receive or respond to a ...
... intelligence is unimpaired . " " The intelligence is unimpaired . " That is only another way of saying , in fact , that this sort of intelligence is , in terms of life , innately defective , since it can never receive or respond to a ...
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... intelligence and to the electro - mechani- cal simulation of organic activities . What Clarke was virtually saying at this point is what H. G. Wells , his most persuasive forerunner , uttered in a final wail of despair at the point of ...
... intelligence and to the electro - mechani- cal simulation of organic activities . What Clarke was virtually saying at this point is what H. G. Wells , his most persuasive forerunner , uttered in a final wail of despair at the point of ...
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... intelligence , ' whereby every other manifestation of human potentialities will be suppressed or completely eliminated . Already the blueprints for that final structure are available : they have even been advertised as man's highest ...
... intelligence , ' whereby every other manifestation of human potentialities will be suppressed or completely eliminated . Already the blueprints for that final structure are available : they have even been advertised as man's highest ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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