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“The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.”

Wells Bits Psychology Computer Concepts Roots Logic Machines Insight Symbols Artificial Intelligence Association Artificial Strict Strict Rules

Author:Daniel Crevier

“Now the word-symbols of conceptual ideas have passed so long from hand to hand in the service of the understanding, that they have gradually lost all such fanciful reference.”

Long Ideas Hands Lost Understanding Psychology Symbols

Author:Wilhelm Wundt

“The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself] can become a symbol of the self. For this reason the symbol of the self is not always as total as the definition would require.”

Persons Self Reason Individual Psychology Greater Oneself Definitions Symbols Defined Psychics Totality

Author:Carl Jung

“By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language.”

Way Mean Doe Stills Spirit Language Psychology Familiar Symbols Allegory

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Structure and dynamics of the psyche

“The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body”

Self Body Bits Consciousness Psychology Depth Arise Symbols Materiality

Book:Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis

Source: Science of Mythology: Essays on the Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis

“The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.”

Mind Self Philosophy Body Psychology Medicine Depth Senses Arise Symbols Soma

Author:Carl Jung