Reductionism Is Merciless.

In Fact, A Sense Of Essence Is, In Essence, The Essence Of Sense, In Effect.

The Strange Flavour Of Ai Work Is That People Try To Put Together Long Sets Of Rules In Strict Formalisms Which Tell Inflexible Machines How To Be Flexible.

The Key Question Is, No Matter How Much You Absorb Of Another Person, Can You Have Absorbed So Much Of Them That When That Primary Brain Perishes, You Can Feel That That Person Did Not Totally Perish From The Earth... Because They Live On In A 'second Neural Home'?... In The Wake Of A Human Being's Death, What Survives Is A Set Of Afterglows, Some Brighter And Some Dimmer, In The Collective Brains Of Those Who Were Dearest To Them... Though The Primary Brain Has Been Eclipsed, There Is, In Those Who Remain... A Collective Corona That Still Glows.

The Entire Effort Of Artificial Intelligence Is Essentially A Fight Against Computers’ Rigidity.

Sometimes It Seems As Though Each New Step Towards Ai, Rather Than Producing Something Which Everyone Agrees Is Real Intelligence, Merely Reveals What Real Intelligence Is Not.