Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ever to make a machine that will speak, understand or translate human language, solve mathematical problems with imagination, practice a profession or direct an organization, either we must reduce these activities to a science so exact that we can tell a machine precisely how to go about doing them or we must develop a machine that can do things without being told precisely how," Friedberg stated...
Back to Infancy. But the human brain, especially in the young, has considerable powers of readjustment and a further capacity for retraining which medicine is now beginning to exploit. After a few days spent mostly in coma. Congrave perked up. His temperature dropped as the inflammation in the brain around the wound subsided. At the end of two weeks he could grunt a response to questions, and he was using his good left hand to help raise a glass to his lips. In another week, told to wiggle the fingers of his left hand, he could both understand the order...
Psychiatrists Eugene L. Bliss and Lincoln D. Clark began the study for several reasons: 1) it is important for military men to know the limits of human endurance; 2) although the personality-destroying effects of sleep deprivation have long been known to inquisitors in police states (and lately used by Communists in brainwashing), they have been little studied by psychiatrists; 3) in a few cases, at least, the onset of schizophrenia is marked by insomnia so severe that it may be a precipitating factor...
...Haven't I always treated you as a human being?" splutters Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), the parlor pink. "Most certainly not!" gasps Butler Crichton (Kenneth More), the pantry tyrant. "Your treatment to me has always been as it should be." When Lord Loam insists, Crichton persists: "Any satisfaction I might derive from being equal [to my master] would be ruined by the footman being equal...
...thickens and distorts his entire head to a sub-Neanderthal bestiality), and it seems a shocking breach of manners when Esmeralda, Quasimodo's barefooted gypsy love (amiably played by Gina Lollobrigida), recoils at sight of him. Actor Quinn has done too thorough a job of making his monster human...