"We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."
-Kevin Kelly
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"A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.“
-Kevin Kelly
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