“When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.” PeopleSpeakProjectsCreatingIntelligent Author:Vernor Vinge
“I believe in the immortality of the soul because I cannot conceive of an intelligent First Cause creating human beings through long process of evolution in this world only to destroy them.” WorldFirstsBelieveHumansLongSoulI BelieveCausesProcessHuman BeingsThis WorldEvolutionCreatingIntelligentI Believe InImmortality Book:My Pillow Book Source: My Pillow Book
“By creating an intelligent thought, you open the road for many other intelligent thoughts! By producing a stupid thought, you open the path for many other stupid thoughts! Beware of your thoughts! Create pearl, and then pearls will increase! Create mud, and then mud will increase!” PathStupidCreatingIncreaseIntelligentPearlsMud Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“No intelligent supervisor, no mystic force, no conscious controlling agency swings the molecules into place at the right time, chooses the appropriate players, closes the links, uncouples the partners, moves them on. The dance of life is spontaneous, self-sustaining, and self-creating.” SelfMovingLife IsForcePlayerCreatingConsciousIntelligentPartnersAgencyAppropriateLinksSwingsSpontaneousRight TimeMysticMoleculesSustainingSupervisors Book:The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life Source: The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life
“If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.” IfsThinkingKnowsChildrenCreatingIntelligentOur ChildrenSaneRecipesCivicsCivic Minded Author:Amanda Peet
“Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.” TogetherBeautifulSongAsksSoundChancePerfectPowerfulWonderfulBuildingColorCoupleCreatingMusic IsIntelligentCloudsIllBlockMysteriousSimplestChordsIlliterateUneducatedBuilding BlocksCreating SomethingUnintelligentMysterious Things Book:31 songs Source: 31 songs
“In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are in the procreation of children,” Turing had advised. “Rather we are, in either case, instruments of His will providing mansions for the souls that He creates.” ShouldChildrenSoulCasesCreatingMachinesIntelligentInstrumentsProvidingConstructsAttemptingMansionsProcreationIntelligent Machines Author:Alan Turing