Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea. - Bernard Beckett
Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
- Bernard Beckett
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. - Bernard Beckett
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern p… - Bernard Beckett
I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern p…
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect. - Bernard Beckett
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. - Bernard Beckett
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really won… - Bernard Beckett
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really won…
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and … - Bernard Beckett
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and …
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fea… - Bernard Beckett
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fea…
In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working togethe… - Bernard Beckett
In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working togethe…
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