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Another Hofstader quote along these lines: "No enlightenment whatsoever would come if a physicist tried to explain World War II by saying it came about thanks to trillions upon trillions of momentum-conserving collisions taking place among ephemeral quantum-mechanical specks. The general rule is that we swim in the world of everyday concepts, and it is they, not micro-events, that define our reality."

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Love it!

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