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As physicist Paul Davies writes in The Goldilocks Enigma (Allen Lane, 2006): Somehow the universe has engineered, not just its own awareness, but also its own comprehension. Mindless, blundering atoms have conspired to make not just life, but understanding. The evolving cosmos has spawned beings who are able not merely to watch the show, but to
... See moreAlexander Green • Beyond Wealth
“Why does consciousness have to be something that’s created? Why isn’t consciousness something that can be accessed and tapped into? I think of the brain as being more like our smartphone, that it’s got different apps and some of us have apps that others of us don’t.”
— Dr. Diane Hennacy Powell
"Mind" is a tool invented by the universe to see itself; but it can never see all of itself, for much the same reason that you can’t see your own back (without mirrors).“
Robert Anton Wilson • Prometheus Rising
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
First, intelligence is situational—there is no such thing as general intelligence. Your brain is one piece in a broader system which includes your body, your environment, other humans, and culture as a whole. Second, it is contextual—far from existing in a vacuum, any individual intelligence will always be both defined and limited by its
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