“A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.” PeoplePersonsFormUnderstandingBlackDealsPrinciplesEvolutionEssentialsSkinsMachinesIntelligentEnvironmentalFinalsLimitationMachineryOur EnvironmentReproductionMetallicAnthropic PrincipleIntelligent Machines Author:Frank J. Tipler
“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.” InspirationalHumansDreamSpiritUnderstandingCompassionComputerToolsMachinesRealizationSparksMagnificentOur DreamsComputer Technology Author:Lou Gerstner
“In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human. It is fitting that such an important landmark has been reached at the Royal Society in London, the home of British Science and the scene of many great advances in human understanding over the centuries. This milestone will go down in history as one of the most exciting.” BelieveHumansHas BeensImportantHomeUnderstandingNumbersCenturyFieldsSceneComputerTestsMachinesExcitingBritishLondonSufficientConvinceArtificial IntelligenceArtificialRoyalControversialFittingIconicMilestoneLandmarks Author:Kevin Warwick
“One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated... It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds...” HumansLawNightUnderstandingImaginationPowerfulPiecesMaterialsColdTerribleTasksMachinesComplicatedFedsEnginesIrelandMachineryTerrible ThingsGrindEducation SystemPredeterminedRuthlessnessEnglish Education Author:Patrick Pearse
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” MenSelfSpiritualSpiritualityUnderstandingKnowledgeAwarenessAcceptanceDiscoveryMachinesFunctionSelf AwarenessSlaveSelf DiscoverySelf KnowledgeSelf UnderstandingSelf-examinationOld SoulDiscovering YourselfDiscovering SelfKnowledge And UnderstandingUnderstanding And LoveSelf ObservationUnderstanding KnowledgeUnderstanding Him Author:G. I. Gurdjieff
“Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to.” GivingMayHateFightingUniverseUnderstandingGoalModernBirthMachinesIntelligentStriveHeightClimbingAspireModern LifeIntelligent Machines Book:Past, Present, and Future Source: Past, Present, and Future
“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.” WayFirstsHas BeensSelfLyingCultureUnderstandingBehindsObjectsAnxietyComputerMachinesMirrorsPsychologicalLabelsSelfishnessWho We AreInsecurityCaptureEnginesNarcissismInsecureMisleadPreoccupationAbsorptionSelf Absorption Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.” KnowsLightHappensScienceUnderstandingCan DoSimpleResultsKnowledgeForeverRecordsOne ThingDogExampleNeededComputerMachinesConstantPatternsSpeedThings HappenInventionShipsElectricityRocketsAccumulation Author:Scott Adams
“I enjoy trying to figure out a way to deal with machines - they become like little buddies or something. It's almost the same way you might develop a relationship with a dog - maybe that's weird to say - but there becomes an understanding you reach after a while.” WayTryingLittlesMightEnjoyUnderstandingDealsDogFiguresMachinesBuddyUnderstanding You Author:Panda Bear
“Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” MenWantSelfMomentsHandsChoicesUnderstandingExistenceFieldsPossibilityMachinesFunctionInfiniteSlaveWhat You WantAccessChosenMakersInfinitySelf KnowledgeIrrelevant Author:Deepak Chopra
“The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.” KnowsMenWellsShowsPurposeUnderstandingMachinesMerePhilosopherTendenciesMechanismMachineryLack Of Understanding Author:Arthur Young
“Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create.” WorldHumansRealDoneAbleLawStarsUnderstandingWonderOur LivesHuman NatureUnderstoodMachinesBasesImprovementHuman LifeElectronsPhysical Science Book:Sceptical Essays Source: Sceptical Essays
“There is an efficiency inspired by love which goes far beyond and is much greater than the efficiency of ambition; and without love, which brings an integrated understanding of life, efficiency breeds ruthlessness.” IfsWorldWarUnderstandingTeachGreaterAmbitionDestructionMachinesAimCompetitionInspiredCaughtDestroyedMutualPrincipalEfficiencyRuthlessIntegratedWithout LoveIndustrializationRuthlessness Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The aims of pure basic science, unlike those of applied science, are neither fast-flowing nor pragmatic. The quick harvest of applied science is the useable process, the medicine, the machine. The shy fruit of pure science is understanding.” ScienceProcessUnderstandingPureMachinesAccountsAimMedicineFruitShyHarvestPragmaticApplied Science Author:Lincoln Barnett
“The greatest of all our human concepts is the immortality of the personality and the eternal glory of the human soul. Throughout eternity you will be yourself and I will be myself, with quickened senses amplified powers of perception, and vastly increased capacity for reason, understanding, love, and happiness, all of which are qualities we may develop now. Our machines wear out, our barns fall down, and our substance goes back to the dust, but our finest collection of personal qualities will have eternal life.” LifeHumansMaySoulReasonFallUnderstandingQualityPersonalityEternalPerceptionGloryConceptsCapacityMachinesEternityDown AndSensesDustSubstanceImmortalityBeing YourselfCollectionsFinestHuman SoulFalling DownEternal LifeBarnsHappiness And LoveUnderstanding LovePersonal Qualities Author:Sterling W Sill
“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.” UnderstandingCarMachinesMetaphorAttributesUmpiresAnalogiesCognitiveArtifactsAttribution Author:John Searle