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From Athena to AI: The Past and Future of Intention in Nature

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Wandering Towards a Goal

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So it was that Aristagoras of Miletus the great defender of the gods conspired to bring together all those Milesians and near Hellenes who were in those days beginning to spread doubts regarding the power and providence of the gods to control the fates of mortals and the happenings of the world.

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Searle, R. (2018). From Athena to AI: The Past and Future of Intention in Nature. In: Aguirre, A., Foster, B., Merali, Z. (eds) Wandering Towards a Goal. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75726-1_14

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