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Driven by persecution and poverty from their ancestral lands, thousands of Armenians fled to the New World before World War 1. But their hearts and minds remained in part on the Old World with their p
This software and accompanying illustrated manual will allow the user to run three prototypes from the book "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology, "by Valentino Braitenberg. The programs are
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