On its seat, Van Gogh placed two novels and a candle that stood for the inspiration of the mind and intellectual light references to Gauguin's more cerebral method of painting.
In truth, the dollar debasement that made housing nominally more attractive served to harm the economy as capital flowed into the unproductive assets of the ground instead of the productive, intellectual assets of the mind.
Some secular Israelis, as zealously committed to fighting the kulturkampf as are the rabbis, see the deal as a step towards drawing the ultra-Orthodox out of their ghettos of the mind and into the mainstream of cultural and intellectual life.
Since the capabilities of such intelligence would be difficult for an unaided human mind to comprehend, the occurrence of a technological singularity is seen as an intellectual event horizon, beyond which events cannot be predicted or understood.