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Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.

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Gilbert Ryle

. . . my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

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A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

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The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine. . . 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.

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In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

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Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.

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