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Jaki, S.L., Brain, Mind and Computers, South Bend, Indiana, Gateway Editions, 1969. Google
33 ;;Quote: some of the chief spokesman of reductionism were the popularizers of physical science
33+;;Quote: Helmholtz complained about using conservation of energy to promote scientific materialism
39 ;;Quote: Maxwell--human personality lies quite beyond the range of science
66 ;;Quote: Bohr emphasized that the existence of life must be considered as an elementary fact and the starting point for biology
226 ;;Quote: computers only operate on the marks of numbers; humans set up a correspondence between any set of things and numbers
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