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“As the machinations of the end-time conspiracy seemed to become more involved, some fundamentalists felt a need to monitor the enemy. Conspiracy theorists share a passion for gathering and collating data matched only by professional intelligence agencies. In 1937, the fundamentalist Church League of America, in Wheaton, Illinois, began to compile dossiers on the enemies of Christ. By the late 1960s, the group claimed to have seven million index cards on subversives, a collection they said was second only to that of the FBI. An associate of Mclntire, Major Edgar C. Bundy, assumed control of the Church League of America in 1956. Using his experience as a former Air Force intelligence officer, Bundy built up a data bank the organization had inherited from J. B. Matthews, a former investigator for Senator McCarthy.” ReligionMccarthyismConspiracies Book:Architects Of Fear Source: Architects Of Fear
“Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.” BookCausesBrainConversation Author:George Johnson
“Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a boxing glove on one hand and a catcher's mitt on the other.” WorldTryingHandsScienceMathematicalBoxingDescriptionCaptureQuantumPrecisePhysicistGlovesCrudeCatchersBoxing Gloves Author:George Johnson
“Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.” ThinkingLittlesHas BeensBookSometimesCausesWalksBrainConversationEncountersFrighteningAltered Author:George Johnson
“Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped onto the other (the computer).” ThinkingWorldMindKindMadeMatterPlayUseScienceGamesCan DoBrainComputerChessSymbolsCupsAssumptionDigitalArtificial IntelligenceSoftwareKnivesArtificialSaltFormalForksSpoonsTokensPeppersShakersSalt And PepperForks And Spoons Book:Machinery of the Mind Source: Machinery of the Mind
“The weapons laboratory of Los Alamos stands as a reminder that our very power as pattern finders can work against us, that it is possible to discern enough of the universe's underlying order to tap energy so powerful that it can destroy its discoverers or slowly poison them with its waste.” EnoughOrderUniverseEnergyPowerfulWasteWeaponsPatternsPoisonRemindersLaboratory Book:Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order Source: Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order
