4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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A machine capable of thought, sensation, and perception could be imagined enlarged proportionally so that a person could enter it like a mill.

Tim Scarfe · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026

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“If we imagine a machine whose structure makes it think, sense, and have perceptions, we could conceive it enlarged, keeping the same proportions so that we could enter into it as if one enters a mill.”
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