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“The comprehension of nature is a uniquely human endeavor. The text you hold in your hands is a bold challenge to the barren suffocation of our age. This is an age in which the winds of post-truth discourse blow shallow and directionless. It is a time when science and scientism are increasingly conflated, when scientific institutions are deliberately estranged from the essence of scientificity, and when the intellectual class seems to have taken a vow of silence. Every act of defiance begins with rational sensitivity and unfolds through emotional motifs. Science, by its very nature, is anarchic. Yet it is also the art of projecting human reason onto nature. Science must not be seen merely as a dry cataloguing of causes or a mechanical activity of listing and defining. It must be understood as the art of explanation and comprehension. For this reason, one must not only reflect on nature but also maintain opposition to method at every step. A scientist without philosophical reflection may become blinded by scientific dogma and lose the ability to perceive reality. In my view, readers will be able to approach Burak Cem Coşkun’s fragments through several different interpretive pathways. His dynamic reasoning accompanies the reader throughout the entire text. At the same time, the narrative speaks to the history of scientific methods, sometimes implicitly and at other times explicitly. In this bold journey, the author’s philosophical intuition will undoubtedly persist in challenging the reader. Within this text, one may experience anger, compassion, or joy in the name of science. The author’s clear success lies in his ability to evoke these responses. This is not the work of a scientistic mind, but of a truly scientific one. As a meta-text, it engages with science not through dogma, but with a scientific attitude. Through its propositions and reflections, and by expressing itself in two languages, this manifesto enters into battle with both what is called science and the cryptic corridors of the scientific method. I read this manifesto not merely as a methodological text but also, simultaneously, as a declaration of logic and of logos in their deepest sense. I must say, I read it with pleasure under the summer sun. Is it not our shared wish to possess the kind of imagination that, in Coşkun’s own words, can unite the mythos of the cosmic pattern with the clarity of logos? May this work offer luminous horizons and vivid dreams to those it reaches. Güncel Önkal Professor of Philosophy Datça, 2025”

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Author:Burak Cem Coşkun
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“The compulsive quest for certainty, as we find with Luther, is not the expression of genuine faith but is rooted in the need to conquer the unbearable doubt. Luther's solution is one which we find present in many individuals today, who do not think in theological terms: namely to find certainty by elimination of the isolated individual self, by becoming an instrument in the hands of an overwhelmingly strong power outside of the individual. For Luther this power was God and in unqualified submission he sought certainty. But although he thus succeeded in silencing his doubts to some extent, they never really disappeared; up to his last day he had attacks of doubt which he had to conquer by renewed efforts toward submission.”

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Author:Erich Fromm
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“The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.”

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Author:David
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“The computer agntold scale. It also paved the way for increasing reclusive conduct at work and at home. It is becoming increasingly difficult for us to foster lasting professional relationships when the world clips along at megabyte speed and coworkers occupy a private office or separate cubicle. Prior forms of face-to-face communication are rapidly becoming obsolete. The computer age allows people to participate in a vast network of electronic communication and our escalating dependence upon electronic communications will foster rapid e opened doors to mass communication at depersonalization in the workplace. Some people will be frozen out of regular social interactions and no longer enjoy an uplifting one-on-one working relationship that people instinctively crave.”

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Author:Kilroy J. Oldster
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“The computer beeped as the upload completed. A moment later, Ian Kabra appeared on the screen. Dan was surprised. "Hey, Ian, isn't it, like, two in the morning back there?" "It's called jet lag," Ian informed him. "I'm still on London time. I don't suppose you savages have any tea in this mausoleum." "There's a diet Snapple in the fridge." Ian shuddered. "I thought not.”

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Author:Gordon Korman
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“The computer can never be an artist, not until it doubts itself. Not until it is so full of shame and regret. And not until that fetid shame is sprinkled with glittering hope and inspiration. Then, when it is lost, desolate, and still hopeful - when it is utterly confused - only then can it call itself an artist. A machine can’t be that way. So, walk away from it. Do not protest it. That which you protest, you merely give strength - by pushing against it, you prop it up, you stop it from falling over. Walk away, let it collapse under the weight of its own hubris. Let it lie in ruin - unseen, unheard, unneeded. Let it rot unattended, and maybe then can it truly understand what it means to be an artist.”

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Author:C. Sean McGee
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“The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product both directly and indirectly.”

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Author:Fernando J. Corbato
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“The computer has evolved into a partner, a tool, and an environment--not just in science fiction, but in the public consciousness as well. Computers are no longer malevolent iron brains that manufacture tyrannical and oppressive answers; they are not a way to think, they are a place from which to think. The computer is an environment in which answers can be sought, created, manipulated and developed.”

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Author:David Gerrold
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“The computer is a tool akin to a telescope or a microscope; a tool that opens vast frontiers of possibilities and brings them to light; a tool that captures the elemental and animates or holds it still at will; a tool that captures the organic flow of the earth's crust or the wash of a wave, and creates an impossible symmetry, an elemental Rorshach pattern ripe for continued exploration, divulging a thousand revelations.”

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Author:John Paul Caponigro
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