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Partial lobotomies had been used for decades to treat mental patients based on the notion that mental functions were strictly localized to corresponding brain areas.

René Descartes advanced the notion that the human body was essentially no different from any other machine, brought to life by a divinely created soul located in the brain's pineal gland.

The experiment was actually designed to refute a philosophical notion called hedonism.

We just want her on the board with us', or, 'He can pay me back at the end of the game, when he's flush with cash', and I'm thinking again, 'What am I teaching these kids?' So, I started watching how they were playing - listening to their banter, getting a feel for how they were making decisions - and I had this thought: 'What if they're playing this way because the money isn't real?' It's a concept I've been reading a lot about, lately, 'Financial abstraction', the notion that when money becomes more and more of an idea, less tangible and therefore more abstract, it changes the way we interact with it on a regular basis, and there's anecdotal evidence of abstraction everywhere around us.

And so, I had this notion of death all around me, because my mother also believed that I would be next, and she would be next.

Listening to this very gamma-ray burst brought us to the notion that the use of sound as an adjunctive visual display may also support sighted astronomers in the search for more information in the data.

Or I can challenge that preexisting notion of normal with my work and with my voice and with my accent and by standing here onstage, even though I'm scared shitless and would rather be in the bathroom.

And so we must continuously challenge our notion of normal, because doing so is going to allow us as a society to finally see the sky for what it is.

It's got that notion of control.

Start with the notion that global warming is not only real, but dangerous.

Everyone was a locavore: even New York had pig farms nearby, and shipping food all over the place was a ridiculous notion.

I know that's an absurd notion.

I try to expand this notion of the aesthetic, how things look, so that it can include things like how it feels on your skin and in your lungs, and how your voice sounds as it passes through it.

I gripped tight to the simple notion that I wasn't a bad person.

A tribute to those who lost their careers during the anti-communist hysteria of the 1940s and 50s, and a conscious inversion of the notion that black somehow had a negative connotation.

Five years ago today, October 15, my business partner and I doubled down on this notion that screenwriting talent was not where we expected to find it, and we launched a website that would allow anybody on earth who had written an English-language screenplay to upload their script, have it evaluated, and make it available to thousands of film-industry professionals.

And to a certain extent, even when I was growing up, the notion was: we have solved bacterial infections; we have antibiotics.

Give up this notion that it's tooting your own horn.

For that entire time, the world only exists as an abstraction, as he is taught the values of society, including this notion that their prayers alone maintain the cosmic balance.

And if we are to expand that notion a little bit, nothing is stopping us from pressing pause on a parade of keynote speeches, the sequence of very polite panel discussions, and replacing some of that with a structured debate.

And it might sound impossible or naive to imagine that you could ever take that notion outside the high school auditorium.

And if the downside of not micromanaging is potentially this perceived notion that you might fail more often, and if it's really not that bad, what is the upside?

I'm trying to redefine AI to get away from this classical notion of machines that intelligently pursue objectives.

Now when I say "written well," what I mean is you might have the most fantastic notion in the world, suddenly you have a man who can fly faster than the speed of light.

He developed this notion that independent of the consequences, some actions are just right and some are just wrong.

And he put a lie to the notion that you have to be positive to live a long life.

In my work, I talk often about the notion that the future is female.

And it's not based on an a priori notion.

And so, in the formation of things, in giving it form, in concretizing these things, it starts with some notion of how one organizes.

And it had to do with the notion of walking a kilometer, observing every kilometer a particular object of desire, and then placing that within this.

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