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The android could run numbers quicker than any living man and had a decidedly non-mechanistic instinct for having and playing hunches.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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The android could run numbers quicker than any living man and had a decidedly non-mechanistic instinct for having and playing hunches.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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But biological complexity isn't evidence of any "non-mechanistic sort of reality".
Bunny and a Book 2008
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Personally, I can't accept a non-mechanistic model because I can't understand it.
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Personally, I can't accept a non-mechanistic model because I can't understand it.
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I certainly don't rule out non-mechanistic hypotheses for biogenesis or the origin of the universe – the evidence is simply too weak to be able to rule out any explanation definitively.
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How do we distinguish mechanistic design from non-mechanistic (creative) design.
Birth Pangs 2006
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I certainly don't rule out non-mechanistic hypotheses for biogenesis or the origin of the universe – the evidence is simply too weak to be able to rule out any explanation definitively.
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Morowitz is not an IDist, but physicists are coming to terms with a non-mechanistic, non-reductionistic view that MIND is as primitive to physical systems as atoms or any subatomic particle.
The Memory Hole 2005
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To state that the game development community is uninterested in non-mechanistic forms of creativity, or somehow incapable of thinking about them, seems absurd to me.
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