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Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.

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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.

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The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

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Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.

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With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: July 16th, 1938

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