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Land
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the
Gayogohó:nǫˀ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogohó:nǫˀ are members of
the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations
with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The
Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New
York State, and the United States of America. I acknowledge the
painful history of Gayogohó:nǫˀ dispossession and honor the ongoing
connection of Gayogohó:nǫˀ people, past and present, to these lands
and waters. I also acknowledge the
dispossession of other Native peoples by the Morrill Act
of 1862 — one of the sources of Cornell's endowment.
— But if abstract science is a luxury and practice of medicine
mere chicane; if law spells injustice, and mechanical invention is
but the means of robbery; if the school, at variance with the
wisdom of the "practical man," is sure to be overcome; and art
without the revolutionary idea can only degenerate, what remains
for me to do?
— Well, I will tell you. A vast and most enthralling task; a
work in which your actions will be in complete harmony with your
conscience, an undertaking capable of rousing the noblest and most
vigorous natures.
— What work?
— I will now tell you.
A note to instructors. Teaching cognitive psychology? Looking
for a sound, comprehensive, and entertaining text that would help
the reader achieve genuine — that is, computational —
understanding of cognition? Consider
adopting Computing the Mind (see below) as your text.
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