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* The unencoded text derives from the 1926 speech [https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1926/03/science.htm "Radio, Science, Technique, and Society"] by Russian revolutionary and communist writer Leon Trotsky, attributed here under his real and original name, Lev Davidovich Bronstein. | |||
* The unencoded text derives from the speech [https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1926/03/science.htm "Radio, Science, Technique, and Society"] by Russian | |||
* The encoded text ("The true method of knowledge is experiment." when assembled) derives from the book ''[https://blakearchive.org/copy/aro.a?descId=aro.a.illbk.03 All Religions Are One]'' by poet William Blake, being slightly modified from the original text. As presented in the original text:<blockquote>As the true method of knowledge is experiment the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences, This faculty I treat of.</blockquote> | * The encoded text ("The true method of knowledge is experiment." when assembled) derives from the book ''[https://blakearchive.org/copy/aro.a?descId=aro.a.illbk.03 All Religions Are One]'' by poet William Blake, being slightly modified from the original text. As presented in the original text:<blockquote>As the true method of knowledge is experiment the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences, This faculty I treat of.</blockquote> | ||
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bronstein_brain.txt is a text document stored in terminal B05 Extra in B5.
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[ARCHIVE: 1926CE-F5112] [BRONSTEIN, LEV DAVIDOVICH]
54 68 65 20 74 72 75 65 20 6D 65 74 68 6F 64 20 6F 66 20 6B 6E 6F 77 6C 65 64 67 65
The human brain is a product of the development of matter, and at the same time is an instrument for the cognition of this matter; gradually it adjusts itself to its function, tries to overcome its limitations, creates ever new scientific methods, imagines ever more complex and exact instruments, checks its work again and yet again, step by step penetrates into previously unknown depths, changes our conception of matter, without, though, ever breaking away from this basis of all that exists.
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Notes
- The unencoded text derives from the 1926 speech "Radio, Science, Technique, and Society" by Russian revolutionary and communist writer Leon Trotsky, attributed here under his real and original name, Lev Davidovich Bronstein.
- The encoded text ("The true method of knowledge is experiment." when assembled) derives from the book All Religions Are One by poet William Blake, being slightly modified from the original text. As presented in the original text:
As the true method of knowledge is experiment the true faculty of knowing must be the faculty which experiences, This faculty I treat of.