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“Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.”
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“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”
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“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...”
― Neuromancer
― Neuromancer
“I'm afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future.
Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think
Yours in distress,
Alan”
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Turing believes machines think
Turing lies with men
Therefore machines do not think
Yours in distress,
Alan”
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“Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life. One of the great triumphs of learning (and of teaching) is to get things organised in your head in a way that permits you to know more than you "ought" to. And this takes reflection, brooding about what it is that you know. The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.”
― Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
― Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and Culture
Mona’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mona’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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428 books
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3 books
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380 books
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2 books
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Biography, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science fiction, linguistics, time-travel, cyberpunk, artificial-intelligence, theology, ancient-history, anthropology, archaeology, geography, european-history, government, presidents, political-science, sociology, social-issues, social-science, education, words, humanities, classical-studies, world-history, cultural-studies, internet, society, academic, grad-school, material-culture, theory, american-history, art-history, microhistory, and books-about-books
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