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A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Kevin Kelly
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Kevin Kelly
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: April 28
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