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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.


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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.



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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.



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