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“The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an anticipator, an expectation-generator. It mines the present for clues, which it refines with the help of the materials it has saved from the past, turning them into anticipations of the future. And then it acts, rationally, on the basis of those hard-won anticipations.”

Quote by Daniel Dennett

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Daniel Dennett, born on March 28, 1942, is an American philosopher renowned for his work in cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of the mind. His research spans various areas including consciousness, free will, and the philosophy of the mind. more

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