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A Swift function must follow four rules to behave like a function in math: A function must always take an argument. A function must always return a value. A function must not depend on anything that changes. A function must not change anything by itself. A function with such properties is called pure. Calling a pure function with the same arguments always returns the same result. A pure function is just a combination of its arguments.
Functions in Swift: Pure, Higher-Order and First-Class Functions, Currying and Partial Application
Vadim Bulavin
In other words, consciousness itself is an illusion that our brain generates to give us a sense of oversight, which feels very much like top-down control.
Free Will Explained
Dan Barker
The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.
Reality Hunger
David Shields
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