February 2010
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What I’m interested in scientifically is understanding thought with computational precision. I mean, the romantic idea that poetry comes from this deep inarticulable ur-stuff is a nice idea, but I think it is essentially false. I think the mind is articulable and the heart probably knowable. Unless you’re a mystic and believe in a soul, which I don’t, you really don’t...
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As long as the ancien régime, as an established world order, was struggling...
– Karl Marx, “A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” 1844.