Interesting/Insightful quotes:
1) "Thus, Myths and rituals involving immersion in water, Purification, the deluge, the submersion of lost continents, the dissolution of the old order and the precipitation of the new, all fit together so as to 'make up a symbolic system which in a sense pre-existed them all."
2) "In the past, researchers in neuroscience and in artificial intelligence have maintained the fallacy that forms of intelligence could be devised on the basis of pure logic without having to postulate anything so messy as 'meaning'.
3)"For a hero possessing the highest rank to descend to the lower depths to recover a loved one who has been carried there is a supreme act of sacrifice displaying the greatest altruism, paralleled by the act of Christ, descending into hell after his crucifixion to accomplish salvation of Adam-and all humankind."
Confusion quote:
1)"Edelman's ideas are part of a wider scientific movement to put the mind back into nature."
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