Sublime

Many business corporations also recognise animals as sentient beings, though paradoxically, this often exposes the animals to rather unpleasant laboratory tests.

Caring about someone or something requires that we believe in its value, but it also requires that we believe that what is valued can cease to be.

“Thought and consciousness will not need to be programmed in,” he wrote. “They will emerge.”

J’ai commencé ce livre par la question rhétorique de Disraeli : « L’Homme est-il un singe ou un ange ? »

University of Indiana anatomy professor Paul Pietsch was skeptical when he heard Lashley’s and Pribram’s claims. Pietsch referred to himself as a “materialist,” saying

humans still stand out by their failure to be clearly limited by a particular nature as other creatures are.

between what is logical and what is rational.

‘He is a collection of tissues and cells delicately and intricately conjoined and brought to life for only an instant. It will take just one sharp collision or a fall to render them inanimate again,’ realises Rabih, the quiet hero of Alain de Botton’s The Course of Love. ‘He is only a visitor who has managed to confuse his self with the world. He h

The difference, I shall argue, is not in the ‘what’, but in the ‘how’ – by which I don't mean ‘the means by which’ (machine model again), but ‘the manner in which’, something no one ever asked of a machine.