Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle. (Marvin Minsky)

Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle.

Marvin Minsky

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