He was also brilliant in my other favourite universes such as Dune, wielding a pug in battle, and in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy where he glared down Sir Alec Guinness and said very little and did so much. Wonderful. Farewell!

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He brought finely polished Shakespearean acting to my spaceship show and gave me an appreciation for the depth of storytelling achievable.

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Farewell, mon capitaine. The incredible Sir Patrick Stewart, actor exemplar and voice of compassion, has departed on the final voyage. We shall miss him.

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Not determined by local microphysical states. And contextual emergence is not compatible with supervenience; in supervenience the parts are sufficient but not necessary for the whole, while in contextual emergence the parts are necessary but not sufficient (a context is needed).

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The argument #philsky #neurosky: free will requires that we are the source of our actions. To be the source of our actions we need our own causal power—a power that is not reducible to our parts and is attributable to us. Contextual emergence provides the possibility of non-reducible causal power...

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