I do not wish to give the impression that I think there is no mystery about consciousness. There is, for instance, something of a paradox connected with any attempt to localize it.
Computer science, codebreaking
From the paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” published in “Mind”, volume 49, number 236.
1950
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