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“The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.”

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Roger Wolcott Sperry

Roger Wolcott Sperry was an American neuroscientist renowned for his research in neuro心理学 and cognitive science. In the 1950s, he proposed the theory of lateralized brain functions, which profoundly influenced the understanding of how the brain processes information. more

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“The new way of thinking, spawned by the cognitive revolution, shows strong promise. Reversing previous doctrine in science, the new paradigm affirms that the world we live in is driven not solely by mindless physical forces but, more crucially, by subjective human values. Human values become the underlying key to world change.”

“Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).”

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Author:Roger Wolcott Sperry

“The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist.”

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Book:Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author

Source: Brain Circuits and Functions of the Mind: Essays in Honor of Roger Wolcott Sperry, Author

“Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.”

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Author:Roger Bacon

“One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.”

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“Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh.”

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Author:Roger Bacon

“No one really knew the sciences except the Lord Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, by reason of his length of life and experience, as well as of his studiousness and zeal. He knew mathematics and perspective, and there was nothing which he was unable to know; and at the same time he was sufficiently acquainted with languages to be able to understand the saints and the philosophers and the wise men of antiquity but his knowledge of languages was not such as to enable him to effect translations until the latter portion of his life.”

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“There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.”

Author:John von Neumann

“When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.”

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“If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.”

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Book:The Neumann Compendium

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