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With The Increasingly Important Role Of Intelligent Machines In All Phases Of Our Lives--military, Medical, Economic And Financial, Political--it Is Odd To Keep Reading Articles With Titles Such As Whatever Happened To Artificial Intelligence? This Is A Phenomenon That Turing Had Predicted: That Machine Intelligence Would Become So Pervasive, So Comfortable, And So Well Integrated Into Our Information-based Economy That People Would Fail Even To Notice It.

Nature, And The Natural Human Condition, Generates Tremendous Suffering. We Have The Means To Overcome That, And We Should Deploy It.

As We Gradually Learn To Harness The Optimal Computing Capacity Of Matter, Our Intelligence Will Spread Through The Universe At (or Exceeding) The Speed Of Light, Eventually Leading To A Sublime, Universe Wide Awakening.

We Appear To Be Programmed With The Idea That There Are 'things' Outside Of Our Self, And Some Are Conscious, And Some Are Not.

The Past Is Over; The Present Is Fleeting; We Live In The Future.