Thursday, February 28, 2019

Reading Notes W5: Moxon's Master, Part B

Disclaimer: The following sentences are direct quotes from Moxon's Master.

I do believe that a machine thinks about the work that it is doing.

Had it affected his mind? His reply to my question seemed to me then evidence that it had; perhaps I should think differently about it now. I was younger then, and among the blessings that are not denied to youth is ignorance.

Herbert Spencer's definition of 'Life': Life is a definite combination of heterogeneous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with external co-existences and sequences.

Mills said, we know nothing of cause except as an antecedent--nothing of effect except as a consequent. Of certain phenomena, one never occurs without another, which is dissimilar: the first in point of time we call cause, the second, effect.

Do you happen to know that Consciousness is the creature of Rhythm?



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