For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
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- Author's profession: Playwright, Critic
- Nationality: english
- Born: July 3, 1937
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Minds are not bits of clockwork, they are just bits of not-clockwork. As thus represented, minds are not merely ghosts harnessed to machines, they are themselves just spectral machines. . . . Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements. I shall argue that these and other...
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