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Quote by John Perry

“If you think about consciousness long enough, you either become a panpsychist or you go into administration.”

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John Perry is a renowned philosopher, born on January 16, 1943. He is a professor at Stanford University, specializing in logic, language philosophy, and cognitive science. Professor Perry is highly respected in the academic community, and his works have had a profound impact on subsequent generations. more

“To ‘speak’ within that universe it requires a circuit that is tuned to the laws of physics of that universe. In Steve’s world a wet piece of electrified meat that he calls a brain is needed to play the song he sings with his soul. The soul requires a substrate such as a human body to develop, but just as the works of Shakespeare can move from the mind of Shakespeare to the substrate of a play, a soul is not bound to a person`s brain.”

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Book:The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

Source: The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“The internet is the turbocharger for my brain.”

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Author:Steven Magee

“TV families and your own are hard to tell apart, except your isn't interrupted every six minutes by commercials and theirs don't get bogged down into nothingness, a state where nothing happens, no skit, no zany visitors, no outburst on the laugh track, nothing at all but boredom and a lost feeling, especially when you get up in the morning and the moon is still shining and men are making noisy bets on the first tee.”

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Book:Rabbit at Rest

Source: Rabbit at Rest

“One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of Larry Sanders and Friends and Will & Grace and Ellen and Designing Women and Mary Tyler Moore, and everyone will see that the sitcom is the great American art form. American poetry will perish with the language; the sitcoms, on the other hand, are new to human evolution and therefore will be less perishable.”