Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second." (Philip K. Dick)

Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second."

Philip K. Dick

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