Machine State Functionalism

Famous quotes containing the words machine and/or state:

    “Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)