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...ilms, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizations and automata possess fatal vulnerabilities. Medicine and warfare are... ...Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of unease, even ... ...rienced as a nervous breakdown by one of Asimov's robots). Conflicts are ruinous in automata based on recursive functions (Turing machines), as all ... ...d Whitehead over a decade. Some argue against this and say that robots need not be automata in the classical, Church-Turing, sense. That they could... ...tics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing wit... ...ors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be ex... ...a set of all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church'... ...ulate the values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Ma... ...unning the TM (=Turing Machine in the rest of this text) was really an effective or mechanical method. For the initiated readers: Church solved the ...

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...tics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing wit... ...rs confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be exp... ...a set of all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church'... ...ulate the values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Ma... ...nning the TM (=Turing Machine in the rest of this text) was really an effective or mechanical method. For the initiated readers: Church solved the ... ...writes, counts and so on. It is an automaton designed to implement an effective or mechanical method of solving functions (determining the truth va... ...-intelligent. On the other hand, as any Artificial Intelligence buff would confirm, automata can become intelligent, having crossed a certain quanti... ...om the intelligent. Is Nature automatic, is it intelligent, or on the seam between automata and intelligence? Nature contains everything and, ther...

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...forgettable lessons about markets and the way they work, namely that "objective", "mechanical" capitalism is a mirage. Perhaps the most important m... ... shattered by the unexpected enormous complexity of biological organisms and even automata. Gradually, cybernetics was subsumed under computing (r... ...Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of unease, even... ...iences as a nervous breakdown by one of Asimov's robots). Conflicts are ruinous in automata based on recursive functions (Turing machines) as all r... ...ehead over a decade. Some will argue against this and say that robots need not be automata in the classical, Church-Turing, sense. That they could... ...atics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing wi... ...ors confined themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be ex... ...a set of all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church'... ...ulate the values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Ma...

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...publishers: stereotyping, the iron press, the application of steam power, mechanical typecasting and typesetting, new methods of reproducing illustr... ...ed by the unexpected enormous complexity of biological organisms and even automata. Gradually, cybernetics was subsumed under computing (rather, vic... ...ys finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of unease, even terror, i... ... a nervous breakdown by one of Asimov's robots). Conflicts are ruinous in automata based on recursive functions (Turing machines) as all robots must... ...r a decade. Some will argue against this and say that robots need not be automata in the classical, Church-Turing, sense. That they could act accor... ... logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing with computa... ...ed themselves to dealing with computations which involved "effective" or "mechanical" methods for finding results (which could also be expressed as... ...all the functions whose values could be obtained by applying effective or mechanical calculation methods. Turing went further down Church's road and... ... values of all the functions whose values can be found using effective or mechanical methods. Thus, the program running the TM (=Turing Machine in t...

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...r. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admit... ...xpect to find that we can reduce all the activities of the brain to computational, mechanically solvable, recursive functions. The brain can be reg... ...ced in the thought experiment by a Turing machine. His functions are recursive and mechanical. But there is a much more serious objection. Whomever... ...ilms, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizations and automata possess fatal vulnerabilities. Medicine and warfare are... ...ies to be discarded after use. Admittedly, that, in itself, is evil. Yet, it is the mechanical, thoughtless, heartless face of narcissistic abuse – ... ...Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of unease, even ... ...rienced as a nervous breakdown by one of Asimov's robots). Conflicts are ruinous in automata based on recursive functions (Turing machines), as all ... ...d Whitehead over a decade. Some argue against this and say that robots need not be automata in the classical, Church-Turing, sense. That they could... ...tics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing wit...

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...r. The computer is a "thinking machine" (however limited, simulated, recursive and mechanical). Similarly, the brain is a "thinking machine" (admit... ...xpect to find that we can reduce all the activities of the brain to computational, mechanically solvable, recursive functions. The brain can be reg... ...ced in the thought experiment by a Turing machine. His functions are recursive and mechanical. But there is a much more serious objection. Whomever... ...ilms, video games, computer viruses - assume that all organisms, organizations and automata possess fatal vulnerabilities. Medicine and warfare are... ...ies to be discarded after use. Admittedly, that, in itself, is evil. Yet, it is the mechanical, thoughtless, heartless face of narcissistic abuse – ... ...Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of unease, even ... ...rienced as a nervous breakdown by one of Asimov's robots). Conflicts are ruinous in automata based on recursive functions (Turing machines), as all ... ...d Whitehead over a decade. Some argue against this and say that robots need not be automata in the classical, Church-Turing, sense. That they could... ...tics (and logic): computability or recursive functions (later to be developed into Automata Theory). The authors confined themselves to dealing wit...

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.... Contradiction is the basis of the simple forms of motion (for instance, mechanical motion) and still more so of the complex forms of motion. ... ...topologically isomorphic specialisms appearing (e.g. neural networks, cellular automata, artificial life, evolutionary computation, production syste... ...ime, i.e. M(t+1) = F(M(t)), this we refer to as a ‘logic machine’ (a predicate automata) and it incorporates the connectives or quantifiers that rel...

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... suspiciously autobiographical. Narcissists like to refer to themselves in mechanical terms, as efficient automata or machines. Seriousness and sen... .... Narcissists like to refer to themselves in mechanical terms, as efficient automata or machines. Seriousness and sense of intrusion and coercion – ...

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...ed." Schizoids are often described, even by their nearest and dearest, in terms of automata ("robots"). They are uninterested in social relationshi... ...money) irresistible. The distinction between passive and active sexual partners is mechanical, false, superfluous and superficial. Penetration does...

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...se the perpetrator's behavior is seemingly arbitrary and unpredictable – or mechanically and inhumanly regular. They feel guilty and disgraced becau... ...ms are described by their nearest and dearest as "zombies", "machines", or "automata". The victims appear to be sleepwalking, depressed, dysphoric, ... ...admit to his own faults and "soft spots". He likes to talk about himself in mechanical terms ("machine", "efficient", "punctual", "output", "comput...

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...workers, food costs would rise. The best solution might be to develop more mechanical pickers, more robots and other labor saving devices. But figuri... ... Descartes wrote that animals have no souls or minds, and are only complex automata. So they cannot think or even feel pain. They do have sensory eq... ...d require special justifications. Keeping a person biologically alive, by mechanically circulating her red blood cells does not allow that person to ... ...ink that death is not an acceptable penalty for an orgasm, so they opt for mechanical contraception like condoms, if they is available. We all know t...

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..., that the public insists on noses, gaiters, white rabbits, bits of fluff, automata and gewgaws. If they do, then let ‘em. Chu Chin Chow for ever! In ... ...ing affair. But this is only one aspect of it. In so far as men are merely mechanical, the struggle is one which, though it may bring disaster and dea... ...ation has this dual aspect. First it is a mechanico-material struggle, two mechanical forces pulling asunder from the central object, the bone. All it... ...hout any creative issue. It is no more than a frog under a cart-wheel. The mechanical forces, rolling on, roll over the body of life and squash it. Th... ...ence. The owners may have little enough, but Labour has none. They’re just mechanical little 50 Touch and Go things that can make one or two motions,...

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...scientific career, and was admirably fitted for that of fice by his great mechanical readiness, and the skill with which, while incapable of comprehe... ...d you will see as bright sun shine as you have left in Naples.” Guasconti mechanically did as the old woman advised, but could not quite agree with h... ... in advance of the cars, looking, I must confess, much more like a sort of mechanical demon that would hurry us to the infernal re gions than a lauda... ...! “My friend Drowne;” said Copley, smiling to himself, but alluding to the mechanical and wooden cleverness that so invariably distinguished the image... ...ficiency which Drowne had just expressed, and which is so rare in a merely mechanical character, must surely imply a genius, the tokens of which had h... ..., and the Brazen Head of Friar Bacon; and, coming down to later times, the automata of a little coach and horses, 174 Mosses from an Old Manse which ...

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...nce, which was disqui- eting in itself, and increased the resemblance of the whole party to mechanical waxworks. Certainly, he affirms, a wax figure m... ...itanic laughter. Nothing has ever tran- spired to clear up the mystery; it may be they were automata; or it may be (and this is the theory to which I ... ...se purely personal favours, this consideration of men’s fancies, rather than the hands of a mechanical clock, as marking the advance of the abstractio...

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...Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of ... ... earth and lay still. She sat facing 146 House of Mirth Selden, repeating mechanically: “No, she has never been un- derstood—” and all the while she ... ...away, and began to wander aimlessly about the room, fitting her steps with mechanical precision between the monstrous roses of Mrs. Peniston’s Axminst... ... Bart crossed his path; but though, after his brief word with her, he kept mechanically on his course, he was conscious of a gradual change in his pur... ...New York hotel—a world over-heated, over-upholstered, and over-fitted with mechanical appliances for the gratification of fantastic requirements, whil... ... Wharton ward him; but he shrank back, putting up his hand, while his eyes mechanically mounted the steep black walnut stairs, up which he was immedia...

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...ome determination. Even as he stood turning over the pile of documents the mechanical vehemence of the telephone filled him with a restored sense of t... ... ex- plained with the faintest flavour of the confidential soften- ing his mechanical respect, “yesterday, when ‘er ladyship was ‘ere, sir, some one r... ...ay! Come!” Her face was white and her eyes terror-stricken. She obeyed him mechanically. She gave one last look at those bodies… . Down the deep-rutte... ...These soldiers were going to fire…. The brown uniformed figures moved like automata; the rifle shots rang out almost in one report…. There was a rush ...

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... like it there; it’s a Factory where I’m going to turn groping and grubbing automata into men.” A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court Mark ... ... the paper by and large, I was vastly pleased with it. Little crudities of a mechanical sort were observable here and there, but there were not enough... ...e spiritlessness is wanting; that’s what’s the trouble. It’s all amatueur — mechanical details all right, al most to a hair; everything about the de...

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...current in France relating to water which is quiet.” “Continue,” said the queen. “Well, then, madame, not a day passes in which I do not suffer affron... ...ome.” Athos, as the name of Raoul was pronounced, looked inquisitively at D’Artagnan, in order to see if any curiosity was painted on his face. But D’... ...rough the water and encouraging it with words. All at once the horse stumbled against a ridge and then placed its foot on the sand. “Saved!” exclaimed... ... last ten minutes. However, you may look and see,” added the lackey, raising the curtained entrance of the tent. Lord Winter was seated near an apertu... ...as if they were made of pewter. Aramis, less self-controlled, fumbled continually with his hidden poniard. Porthos, impatient at his continued losses,... ...ed. “He is alone,” said Grimaud. “We did not see his companion come out.” “He may have gone by the other door.” “What is he doing?” “Putting on his cl...

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...f the apartment. The action, however, was but momentary, his gaze returned mechanically to the wall. To his extreme horror and astonish- ment, the hea... ...he lunarians, and bearing so little resemblance to humanity, yet evinced a mechanical ingenuity so much superior to our own. One finds it difficult, t... ..., and that he delighted, especially, in commenting upon the rapid march of mechanical invention. Indeed, lead him where I would, this was a point to w... ... a deep sense of the valuable privileges we enjoy in living in this age of mechanical invention. My curiosity, however, had not been altogether satisf... ... of either modern or ancient days. Y et there have been many and wonderful automata. In Brewster’s Letters on Natural Magic, we have an account of the... ...fer the unlife-like appearances to inability—for all the rest of Maelzel’s automata are evidence of his full ability to copy the motions and pecu- lia... ...uld be difficult to con- vince any assemblage of persons that these wooden automata were not living creatures. We cannot, therefore, doubt Mr. Maelzel... ...upation other than that of assisting in the packing and un- packing of the automata. This man is about the medium size, and has a remarkable stoop in ... ...the exhibition. Moreover, some years ago Maelzel visited Richmond with his automata, and exhibited them, we believe, in the house now occupied by M. B...

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...e use; and thinking that they but contributed to the advance ment of the mechanical arts, I was astonished that founda tions, so strong and solid,... ...ho are acquainted with the variety of movements performed by the different automata, or moving machines fabricated by human industry, and that with he...