"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

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"Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places."

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"If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

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"My car and my adding machine understand nothing: they are not in that line of business."

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"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."

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"In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on."

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"We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions."

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"I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding.""

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"Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed."

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"Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence."

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"Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself."

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"There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument."

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"I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing."

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