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...recent years scores of scientists have grappled with that profound question, among them mathematical physicist Roger Penrose, biologist Francis Crick and psychiatrist Allan Hobson, as well as many philosophers. Their answers have ranged from the optimism of Tufts University's Daniel Dennett, who says consciousness will one day be understood as nothing more complicated than a kind of biological software routine, to the outright pessimism of Rutgers University's Colin McGinn. He regards consciousness as "the ultimate mystery, a mystery that human intelligence will never unravel...
There was, however, a more positive and socially responsible side to this. The "American Renaissance" also produced some of the finest public buildings of the 19th century. There had been noble churches in the U.S. before, but none as boldly resplendent in space and decor as Henry Hobson Richardson's Trinity Church (1872-97) in Boston. There had been libraries too, but none as ambitious as the great Boston Public Library (1887-95), designed by McKim, Mead & White. The library was the first major public building in the neo-Italian Renaissance style that was to become de rigueur in formal...
...DAVID HOBSON (R) District...
...nonsense Republican, Hobson has used his business experience to negotiate things like NAFTA protections for flat grass and broomcorn--farmed in his district--and lobby against the American Automobile Labeling Act for constituents who work at the local Honda factory...
...Hobson also said the rally in the Yard on April 19 in support of ethnic studies was "huge largely because of UNITE!," and student attendance at the April 22 demonstration outside the Faculty Club in support of dining hall workers was a result of UNITE...