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the protein and plasma of the eyeball to make a dark room?

I read about these struggles and deliberations of the first intellectronicists with no small amusement. A chicken is undoubtedly the simplest mechanism for someone who wants scrambled eggs, but it would not be the best idea to try to synthesize Intelligence by this method. Never mind about the tech…

—p.206 Imaginary Magnitude Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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protean

You may understand the combinational principles of such a protean game, but you cannot experience it yourself.

—p.184 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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aleatory

ethics, seeking its sources and sanctions, experiences shock when it learns that it originated in the aleatoric chemistry of nucleic acids

—p.179 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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ontic

Therefore a constant factor of all your theodictic, ontic, and sacralizing work was the continued endeavor to assimilate data in a divergence of explanations:

—p.177 Golem XIV: Lecture XLIII—About Itself (170) by Stanisław Lem
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therefore abstraction is primary for me

What I have said up to now is intended to explain why I shall be interlarding my lecture with the images and parables so necessary to you. I do not need them myself; in this I discern no sign of my superiority—that lies elsewhere. The countervisuality of my nature derives from the fact that I have …

—p.128 Golem XIV: Golem’s Inaugural Lecture—About Man Threefold (127) by Stanisław Lem