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“The mechanisms that enable and govern our behavior today have been shaped by the ecology and behavior of our ancestors across countless generations; the mind/brain can then be studied as an evolved -computational organ-, or more precisely, a collection of specialized organs that perform various kinds of computations.”

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Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach
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“I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. ... What you know about computing other people will learn. Don’t feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What’s in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.”

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Book:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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“The Beetle’s body, whether it be a ’49 split or a ’73 Jeans Bug, or an ‘03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930’s. This is evident in it’s body styling which aside from it’s rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing. The only problem was, in the beginning they didn’t seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!”

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“In the history of Western science and philosophy there has been a tension between the study of substance and the study of form. The study of substance begins by asking, “What is it made of?” The study of form begins with the question, “What is its pattern?”

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“Today we live in an era where quantum mechanics has been known for over 100 years. Many scientists still struggle to grasp its strangeness, preferring to remain in their comfortable "Goldie Locks" zone of everyday experience.”

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“The world is experiencing many issues related to a reductionist approach that sees separateness and distinction between everyone and everything. It's time to start looking at how to fully utilize and capitalize on the information already in the public domain.”

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“Within the next 150 years, Pataphysics should replace physics as the main branch of science dealing with the nature of the universe. Why? Because humanity and mainstream science will realize even more just how much reality depends upon the consciousness that observes it.”

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“Today's mainstream researchers do not dive directly into deep existential currents. They are more likely to take a series of small incremental steps. The fear is that the deeper they go, the more it is possible to lose touch, only to discover reality is a shared delusion.”

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“This work represents an early effort with Cybernetic Technology Enhanced Consciousness (TEC). Mynt says it is easier to work with someone when they are already traveling the path to higher consciousness. This type of Cybernetic Union will become more common in the coming era.”

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“The Cartesian mechanistic worldview has been responsible for developing classical physics and technology. Yet the Cartesian tendency to divide the perceived world into individual and separate things can also lead to fear of the Other and excessive self-interest, sometimes resulting in a lack of compassion.”

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“In an ironic twist the Cartesian view paved the way to the development of quantum mechanics, which is now pointing the way out of this fragmentation and back to the idea of unity expressed in the early Eastern and Greek philosophies.”

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“The complicated instruments of experimental physics peered deep into the submicroscopic world; a world far removed from the macroscopic world of our sensory environment. This subatomic world is so far removed from our senses we never investigate the phenomena themselves but always their consequences. We never see or hear the investigated phenomena directly. We see computer readouts, spots on photographic plates, or Geiger counter clicks.”

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“As we penetrate deeper and deeper, we not only have to abandon ordinary language but also long-held concepts that no longer apply to this world of the infinitely small. Now, physicists are dealing with nonsensory experience reality. Like mystics, they have to face the paradoxical aspects of this experience.”

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“The divergence from the Newtonian model did not come abruptly but began with changes in the nineteenth century. The first was the discovery and investigation of magnetic phenomena, which could not be described appropriately by the mechanical model as it involved a new type of force. This study of subtler concepts of fields without reference to material bodies was a profound change.”

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“Imagine an alternate universe in which people don’t have words for different forms of transportation—only the collective noun “vehicle.” They use that word to refer to cars, buses, bikes, spacecraft, and all other ways of getting from place A to place B. Conversations in this world are confusing. There are furious debates about whether or not vehicles are environmentally friendly, even though no one realizes that one side of the debate is talking about bikes and the other side is talking about trucks. There is a breakthrough in rocketry, but the media focuses on how vehicles have gotten faster—so people call their car dealer (oops, vehicle dealer) to ask when faster models will be available. Meanwhile, fraudsters have capitalized on the fact that consumers don’t know what to believe when it comes to vehicle technology, so scams are rampant in the vehicle sector. Now replace the word “vehicle” with “artificial intelligence,” and we have a pretty good description of the world we live in. Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. ChatGPT has little in common with, say, software that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Both are referred to as AI, but in all the ways that matter—how they work, what they’re used for and by whom, and how they fail—they couldn’t be more different.”

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Book:AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
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“[All] modern chatbots are actually trained simply to predict the next word in a sequence of words. They generate text by repeatedly producing one word at a time. For technical reasons, they generate a “token” at a time, tokens being chunks of words that are shorter than words but longer than individual letters. They string these tokens together to generate text. When a chatbot begins to respond to you, it has no coherent picture of the overall response it’s about to produce. It instead performs an absurdly large number of calculations to determine what the first word in the response should be. After it has output—say, a hundred words—it decides what word would make the most sense given your prompt together with the first hundred words that it has generated so far. This is, of course, a way of producing text that’s utterly unlike human speech. Even when we understand perfectly well how and why a chatbot works, it can remain mind-boggling that it works at all. Again, we cannot stress enough how computationally expensive all this is. To generate a single token—part of a word—ChatGPT has to perform roughly a trillion arithmetic operations. If you asked it to generate a poem that ended up having about a thousand tokens (i.e., a few hundred words), it would have required about a quadrillion calculations—a million billion.”

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Book:AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
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“In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation”

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Book:Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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“The human brain became large by natural selection (who knows why, but presumably for good cause). Yet surely most "things" now done by our brains, and essential both to our cultures and to our very survival, are epiphenomena of the computing power of this machine, not genetically grounded Darwinian entities created specifically by natural selection for their current function.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould
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“The Relativity theory, the copernican upheaval, or any great scientific convulsion, leaves a new landscape. There is a period of stunned dreariness; then people begin, antlike, the building of a new human world. They soon forget the last disturbance. But from these shocks they derive a slightly augmented vocabulary, a new blind spot in their vision, a few new blepharospasms or tics, and perhaps a revised method of computing time.”

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Book:The Art of Being Ruled
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“We couldn't build quantum computers unless the universe were quantum and computing. We can build such machines because the universe is storing and processing information in the quantum realm. When we build quantum computers, we're hijacking that underlying computation in order to make it do things we want: little and/or/not calculations. We're hacking into the universe.”

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Author:Seth Lloyd
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“Microsoft and Dell have been building, implementing and operating massive cloud operations for years. Now we are extending our longstanding partnership to help usher in the new era of cloud computing, by giving customers and partners the ability to deploy the Windows Azure platform in their own datacenters.”

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Author:Bob Muglia
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“Meaning and value depend on human mind space and the commitment of time and energy by very smart people to a creative enterprise. And the time, energy, and brain power of smart, creative people are not abundant. These are the things that are scare, and in some sense they become scarcer as the demand for these talents increases in proportion to the amount of abundant computing power available.”

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Author:Steven Weber
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“We believe we're moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin' Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack.”

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Author:Scott McNealy
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