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Schelling tried to resolve the problem of Cartesian dualism, with the conscious self on one side and the external world on the other,
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
Look at me! I am Master here. I am Man. I have tamed these beasts of the wild. Except the taming had been the work of a team of bio-engineers, programmers and cyberneticists in laboratories hundreds of miles away.
Dogs of War
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Yes, I can perform both analyses. It’s a low-level plod, that kind of work, but it will take my units considerable time. I’ll set aside a portion of myself for rote functionality and we’ll get the results in due course.” Solace understood that. Part of the colony that was Trine would become a non-sentient cluster, performing the legwork. Then Trine would “know” the results when this cluster rejoined the whole. As Trine themself would be reduced while divided, it wasn’t something Hivers did on a whim.
Shards of Earth
Adrian Tchaikovsky
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