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Journalism, by its nature, necessitates the imposition of attentional selection on the consumer, superimposing the journalist's value system on both medium and message.
Reruns.
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Art is transformational, requiring of the viewer as well as the artist an active or implicit set of mutual choices which constitute both the subject and the object of the work.
It is axiomatic that communication presupposes a shared semantic context in which utterances both exist and are socially connected to referents.
must ... cross ... road ...
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Searle claims his Chinese Room argument demonstrates the impossibility of machine consciousness due to a lack of qualia. Dennet argues that qualia are defined operationally and reductively.
Neither seem to address the explanatory gap. Merely asserting a lack of qualia does not satisfy, nor does asserting reductivism without constructive proof. What, then, are we to believe?
Unable to solve the fundamental philosophical problem of consciousness, Ralph did not notice the presence of the helium-filled squirrel until it was too late.

 

Old is the strange hiss, / Whispers on the wind sing of / Things yet to return.
Thank you.

 

This guy walks into a bar with a chicken and an alligator. The guy says to the bartender, "I'll have a Scotch and Soda." The alligator says, "I'll have a Martini."
"That's amazing," says the bartender, "that alligator can talk!" "Actually," says the guy, "I'm a ventriloquist."
Later that night, Clarence wrote a note to Plurp, threatening violence.

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