"The cybernetics phase of cognitive science produced an amazing array of concrete results, in addition to its long-term (often underground) influence"

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Source : Eleanor Rosch, Evan Thompson, Francisco J. Varela (1992). “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience”, p.38, MIT Press

Francisco Varela

#Long Quotes #Phases Quotes #Cybernetics Quotes

“The key to me, in religion, is just to treat it like it doesn't really matter. We have a Pope, we don't really believe him, we don't really listen to what he says, we don't really take him seriously. That's what has to happen with religion. It has to be marginalized and in the Islamic world, it's not marginalized, it's taken literally.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

Source : 1748 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, section 10, pt.1.
“People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.”

Source : "The Prajna-sutras: Aphorisms of Intuition". Book by Subhash Kak, 2007.
“My grandmother was a minister as well, which was not that common in the 1930s.”
“Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.”
“After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.”
“I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.”
“If you're to the point where you're trying to overcome that means you're at the point where you've admitted that you have a problem, and that might be your strongest point in the addiction.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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