“This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.” MindHumansLooksShowsFormResultsBabyEvolutionComputerBuiltProgramUniversalPropertyCoreAbstractHuman MindGrammar Author:Gary Marcus
“I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.” IfsMindHumansMadeCan DoProductsHugeEvolutionAccountsExplanationHuman MindArtificial IntelligenceMentalityArtificialMiraculousAssemblyArtifactsMacro Author:Daniel Dennett
“I was brought up to believe in free will. Although I came to doubt all revelation, I can never accept the idea that the Universe is a physical or chemical accident, a result of blind evolution. Even though I learned to recognize the lies, the clichés and the idolatries of the human mind, I still cling to some truths which I think all of us might accept some day.” ThinkingMindBelieveHumansStillsI CanIdeasMightLyingUniverseResultsAcceptingDoubtEvolutionBlindAccidentsRevelationsFree WillHuman MindChemicalsIdolatry Book:Aspects of I.B. Singer Source: Aspects of I.B. Singer
“No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.” MindHumansMayWarGamesForgetArmsEvolutionBlessingBallsSouthStriveSoldierCivil WarHuman MindFoeComradeCultivatingNorth And SouthFraternal Author:Albert Goodwill Spalding
“The human mind has a desire to know its place in the universe and the role we play in the tapestry of life. This is actually hardwired into our brains, the desire the know our relationship to the universe. This was good for our evolution, since it enabled us to see our relationship to others and to nature which was good for our survival. And it is also what drives our curiosity to understand the universe.” KnowsMindHumansPlayDesireUniverseBrainRolesEvolutionSurvivalCuriosityHuman MindOur RelationshipTapestryTapestry Of Life Author:Michio Kaku
“The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.” ThinkingWayMindHumansRealityPurposeUnderstandingProductsEvolutionCostSpeciesRecognitionHuman MindWay Of ThinkingCardinalsHumbling Author:E. O. Wilson
“I think that the theory of evolution is the most unscientific, faith-based, fundamentally brainless idea that ever had the misfortune to come out of a human mind. To compare it to true science is a joke. There is nothing even slightly scientific about it.” ThinkingMindHumansIdeasTheoryEvolutionJokesCompareHuman MindMisfortunesTheory Of EvolutionFaith BasedBrainless Author:Ray Comfort
“I want to put it back together now, this artistic expression that contains religious feeling. I want to investigate: What was the origin? What's happened in the human mind? Can we trace back the moment of the creation of human consciousness? And why did only humans gain consciousness, not other animals? So, evolution? I don't know whether or not I can believe evolution. Maybe we wait for another 100,000 years and then apes get consciousness.” KnowsWantYearsMindBelieveHumansI CanMomentsFeelingsTogetherWaitingReligiousAnimalConsciousnessHappenedCreationExpressionEvolutionGainsArtisticHuman MindApesBack TogetherHuman ConsciousnessArtistic Expression Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind. It tracks the evolution of a single consciousness in order to give us an experience - an experience of looking for something and then finding ourselves in a different place by the time we've finished our journey.” GivingMindHumansDifferentOrderConsciousnessJourneyEvolutionFindingsTrackFinishedHuman MindEssaysDifferent Place Author:John D'Agata
“An essay is something that tracks the evolution of a human mind.” MindHumansEvolutionTrackHuman MindEssays Author:John D'Agata
“I do not believe we will get to Ray Kurzweil's proposed "singularity" in which human minds meld with machines to produce, in effect, synthetic human evolution. Our basic problems with maintaining the electric grid argue against that fantasy.” MindBelieveHumansProblemFantasyEffectsProduceEvolutionMachinesArguingHuman MindRaysElectricMaintainingSingularityGridsHuman EvolutionSynthetic Author:James Howard Kunstler
“Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.” MindHumansCoursesNaturalReligiousViewsTheoryEvolutionTraditionalHuman MindSelectionReconciliationNatural SelectionTheory Of EvolutionReligious Views Author:E. O. Wilson