The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor … - Norbert Wiener

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I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.

Norbert Wiener

The mechanical brain does not secrete thought "as the liver does bile," as the earlier materialists claimed, nor does it put it out in the form of energy, as the muscle puts out its activity. Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day.

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