Sublime

this isn’t really about the capacity to think, but rather about the choice of what to think about.

Neural Darwinism is still speculative.

Humans are in danger of losing their value, because intelligence is decoupling from consciousness.

My main aim here is to present a view of how the mind works that draws on recent developments in cognitive and social psychology.

One thesis of this book is that, slowly but surely, depth is winning.

And, although it seems obvious that an AI will have qualia and consciousness, we cannot explain those things. So long as we cannot explain them, how can we expect to simulate them in a computer program? Or why should they emerge effortlessly from projects designed to achieve something else? But my guess is that when we do understand them, artificia

As Daniel Dennett observes, where it is difficult to believe a thing, it is often much easier to believe that you ought to believe it.

Our sense of our own freedom results from our not paying close attention to what it is like to be us.