... years or so. In all actuality after thousands of years of fantasy, the appearance of the digital computer, with its native, human-like ability to process symbols, made it seem that the myth of the man-made intelligence would finally become reality. The history of artificial intelligence all started in the 3rd century BC. ... was born in the first half of the 20th century, when the electronic computer came into being. The computer's memory was made up of pretty much all symbols. The pioneer of this synthesis was the British logician and computer pioneer, Alan Turing, who carried out the ...

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... poet, though close to realisation of his condition, is not fully stripped of the illusion of hope. ( 89) As readers can realise, this part, as every part, is full of symbols and these images are part of a universal symbolic vocabulary, as every image of Eliots poetry. The corridor, the rose garden itself, the boksz circle, the pool, the lotus are iconographic ... images and they form an extremely complex meaning. They are not only symbols, "but symbols that are meant to imply a certain frame of interpretation outside the poem" ( Thompson 99). As I mentioned earlier, ruins are so promine...

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... we fail to see the human and spiritual values in life. The Indian tribes in the Great Plains have great beauty and dignity in their cultural forms. One of the symbols that expresses most completely the Plains Indian concept of the relationship between human beings and the world of nature surrounding them is a cross inscribed within a circle. At the center of ... in the individual who attains the ultimate goal. The three stages are purification, perfection/expansion and union. If we understand the Indian relationship with nature and the values of their symbols and rites, then we may beco...

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... arbitrariness as "A property of human language whereby linguistic forms are said to lack any physical correspondence with the entities in the world to which they refer". That means symbols we use in our language are arbitrary as it has no direct connection between the form and its meaning. For example, the word "flower" does not show the ... ...

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... us be true to one another!" The revival that he predicts is not one of literature in general but is confined to poetry. For, to Hulme, prose is a system of symbols used in varying combinations to create different outcomes. It is essentially linguistic or mathematical. Poetry, however, is not about order and results. The focus of poetry is to make concrete ... ...

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... the Flies," author William Golding incorporates characters, objects, and events which represent concepts or ideas pertaining to the flaws of mankind. These things are known as allegories, because they are symbols that stand for the truths about human life. Golding uses allegory as a literary device to advance the story's significance beyond just an adventure fable. The book scrutinizes human behaviour in ... ...

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... being nested in a larger whole to whose stability and dynamism it contributes. Insects and animals are capable of a limited symbolic communication of information, while primates and human beings can use symbols to express abstract concepts. Human information can be transmitted between generations not only by genes and by parental example, but also in speech, literature, art, music and other cultural forms ... ...

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... Kant's philosophy should help us to engage ourselves again with nature, we have to look for the hidden premisses behind this philosophy. Kant's critical philosophy in particular shows a poverty of symbols and has little narrative expressiveness. Love of nature is pathologic and gives evidence of human heteronomy in relation to nature. From this and from a perspective placed externally to Kant's philosophy ... ...

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... " is a clear representation of the capacity for evil in each of us and Ralph, a wholesome saint-like character, symbolises the good. But it is not only characters that work as symbols. The conch (a large shell used to call the boys for meetings) is a symbol of democracy, power and authority. This idea is sparked when it is decided that the one holding ... ...

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