Play Is Just Another Version Of Work

Inventing Is A Lot Like Surfing: You Have To Anticipate And Catch The Wave At Just The Right Moment.

The Ethical Debates Are Like Stones In A Stream. The Water Runs Around Them. You Haven't Seen Any Biological Technologies Held Up For One Week By Any Of These Debates.

My View Is That Consciousness, The Seat Of "personalness," Is The Ultimate Reality, And Is Also Scientifically Impenetrable. In Other Words, There Is No Scientific Test One Can Postulate That Would Definitively Prove Its Existence In Another Entity. We Assume That Other Biological Human Persons, At Least Those Who Are At Least Acting Conscious, Are Indeed Conscious. But This Too Is An Assumption, And This Shared Human Consensus Breaks Down When We Go Beyond Human Experience (e.g., The Debate On Animal Consciousness, And By Extension Animal Rights).

[in] 2029, I Think, Computers Will Match And Exceed Human Intelligence In The Ways We're Now Superior, Like Being Funny, Where We Still Have An Edge.

Evolution Is A Process Of Creating Patterns Of Increasing Order....i Believe That It's The Evolution Of Patterns That Constitutes The Ultimate Story Of Our World. Evolution Works Through Indirection: Each Stage Or Epoch Uses The Information-processing Methods Of The Previous Epoch To Create The Next.