Mr. Headmaster, members of the staff, bo...

Breaking the Code

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Mr. Headmaster, members of the staff, boys. I want you to imagine a bowl of porridge. A bowl of cold porridge. When I was a boy here at Sherborne--some twenty-five years ago--we always had porridge for breakfast--every day, winter and summer--or so it seems.
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At the moment such considerations should not concern us; but it might be rather nice--don’t you think?--if one day, we could find out just what a machine could feel.

Hugh Whitemore. Breaking the Code. Samuel French, 1988. pp.34-35.

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