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the being of a purely inner subjectivity that is no longer recognised as enjoying any truth,
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There is pleasure in learning. To be a recipient of mechanised information dumps is to lose the greater part of knowledge aquisition; the challenge and self-recognition that one has overcome or succesfully managed that challenge and come away with the prize. The alternative is the treasure without the dragon, the princess witout the risk: what meaning is left aside from the cold, literal and computative?
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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