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...deny consciousness to Lieut. Commander Data just because he doesn't have the soft tissue of a human brain. Identifying it with information processing would go too far in the other direction and grant a simple consciousness to thermostats and calculators--a leap that most people find hard to stomach. Some mavericks, like the mathematician Roger Penrose, suggest the answer might someday be found in quantum mechanics. But to my ear, this amounts to the feeling that quantum mechanics sure is weird, and consciousness sure is weird, so maybe quantum mechanics can explain consciousness...
Congress continues to wield the power of the purse, but if history is any guide, the legislators will have little stomach for withholding resources from troops already in the field. Once again the President will have the upper hand. Despite the founders' best intentions, the world's oldest democracy still has a chronically deficient mechanism for bringing democratic practices meaningfully to bear on the waging...
...grotesque, ironical and humorous attempt to come to terms with history," according to its playwright Rolf Hochhuth, opens in Berlin. Interestingly, the company hired to put up the Heil Hitler! publicity posters in Berlin refused at first; an executive said he found the play's title too "hard to stomach...
Instead, the Crimson’s starting point guard was lying down at University Health Services with an IV hooked up to her arm, dehydrated by a stomach virus that threatened to sideline her for the most important game of the team’s young season...
...other way. Hallion promptly nailed a jumper on the other end to up the Crimson’s lead to five with just under a minute left.The entire second half was a highlight reel for Hallion, who just the day before found herself in the hospital with a stomach bug. The junior guard shook off sickness to record a career-high 22 points—18 after the break—and added three rebounds, four assists, and three steals.“Lindsay is really the heart and soul of this team,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney...