'The trouble with trying to calculate how many angels can dance on the head of the proverbial pin, or how many demons Father Michaelis dislodged from the body of a hysteric, is that angels and demons are theoretically so ill-defined that we do not know how to begin to count, or what to take as a reasonable estimate. In the absence of theory to provide principles for individuating, one man's considered judgment is another man's jest.'
- Patricia Smith Churchland
'Consciousness is like the Trinity: if it is explained so that you can understand t, it hasn't been explained correctly.'
- Robert J. Joynt
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