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Indeed, *Alan Newell* said something to this effect in 1990: "The question for me is how can the human mind occur in the physical universe? We now know that the world is governed by physics. We now understand the way biology nestles comfortably within that. The issue is how will the mind do that as well. The answer must have the details. I [need] to know how the gears clank and how the pistons go and all the rest of that detail. My question leads me to worry about the architecture".

AGI Will Not Happen in Your Lifetime. Or Will It?

Gary Marcus

"You asked the impossible of a machine," said Salo, "and the machine complied."

The Sirens of Titan

Kurt Vonnegut

Simply highlight the first string of text you want to combine and add the note `.c1` ("c" for "concatenate"). Then, highlight the second string of text and add the note `.c2`. Upon importing into Readwise, these two highlights will be combined into a single annotation. ... ![1](https://s3.amazonaws.com/readwiseio/2018/05/concatenate1.gif)

How to Combine Highlights On-the-Fly with Concatenation in Readwise

Daniel Doyon

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