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This is not our world with trees in it. It’s a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
In feudal or archaic caste societies, in cruel societies, signs are limited in number and their circulation is restricted. Each retains its full value as a prohibition, and each carries with it a reciprocal obligation between castes, clans or persons, so signs are not arbitrary.
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Jean Baudrillard
Borges stipulates that the "guiding principle" of the thinking machine remains cardinal: "the methodical application of chance to the resolution of a problem".
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