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Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. if one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.
-Daniel Dennett
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Homunculi Are Bogeymen Only If They Duplicate

Daniel Dennett
Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. if one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress.
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