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structures in a cell, called microtubules, that exhibit quantum behavior, so
the brain can never be reduced to a simple collection of electronic components.
Page 104: Colin McGinn of Rutgers University says that artificial intelligence ... Raku, Visions, p. 95.
Page 111: Steve Grand, director of the Cyberlife Institute, says... Cavelos,
p. 90.
Page 111: "He failed, and I failed on the same problem in my 1981 Ph.D.
thesis." Rodney Brooks, New Scientist Magazine, November 18, 2006, p. 60.
Page 112: "It doesn't mean Kasparov isn't a deep thinker..." Raku, Visions, p. 61.
Page 113: Not surprisingly, Lenat's motto is, Intelligence is 10 million
rules. Raku, Visions, p. 65.
Page 114: "We were killing ourselves trying to create a pale shadow..."
Bill Gates, Skeptic Magazine, vol. 12, no. 12, 2006, p. 35.
Page 114: "Even something as simple as telling the difference between an
open door and a window can be devilishly tricky for a robot." Bill Gates, Scientific American, January 2007, p. 63.
Page 115: "No one can say with any certainty when-or if-this industry. .Scientific American, January 2007, p. 58.
Page 118: "There's no machine today that can do that."Susan Rruglinski,
"The Top 100 Science Stories of 2006," Discover Magazine, p. 16.
Page 118: Hans Moravec says, "Fully intelligent machines will result..."
Raku, Visions, p. 76.
Page 119: " Please! Please! I need this! It's so important...' " Raku, Visions, p. 92.
Page 120: Neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio of the University of Iowa...
Cavelos, p. 98.
Page 120: "Computers just don't get it." Cavelos, p. 101.
Page 120: As Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote... Barrow, Theories of Everything, p. 149.
Page 121: "Our successors will be amazed by the amount of scientific rubbish .. ."Sydney Brenner, New Scientist Magazine, November 18, 2006, p. 35.
Page 124: "It is possible that we may become pets of the computers..."
Raku, Visions, p. 135.
Page 124: "When that happens, our DNA will find itself out of a job,..."
Raku, Visions, p. 188.
Page 124: So in the long term some have advocated a merging of carbon
and silicon technology... So our mechanical creations may ultimately be the
key to our long-term survival. As Marvin Minsky says, "We humans are not
the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point
in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we
can't." Rruglinski, "The 100 Top Science Stories of 2006," p. 18.
Page 125: In the far future, robots or humanlike cyborgs... Immortality,
structures in a cell, called microtubules, that exhibit quantum behavior, so
the brain can never be reduced to a simple collection of electronic components.
Page 104: Colin McGinn of Rutgers University says that artificial intelligence ... Raku, Visions, p. 95.
Page 111: Steve Grand, director of the Cyberlife Institute, says... Cavelos,
p. 90.
Page 111: "He failed, and I failed on the same problem in my 1981 Ph.D.
thesis." Rodney Brooks, New Scientist Magazine, November 18, 2006, p. 60.
Page 112: "It doesn't mean Kasparov isn't a deep thinker..." Raku, Visions, p. 61.
Page 113: Not surprisingly, Lenat's motto is, Intelligence is 10 million
rules. Raku, Visions, p. 65.
Page 114: "We were killing ourselves trying to create a pale shadow..."
Bill Gates, Skeptic Magazine, vol. 12, no. 12, 2006, p. 35.
Page 114: "Even something as simple as telling the difference between an
open door and a window can be devilishly tricky for a robot." Bill Gates, Scientific American, January 2007, p. 63.
Page 115: "No one can say with any certainty when-or if-this industry. .Scientific American, January 2007, p. 58.
Page 118: "There's no machine today that can do that."Susan Rruglinski,
"The Top 100 Science Stories of 2006," Discover Magazine, p. 16.
Page 118: Hans Moravec says, "Fully intelligent machines will result..."
Raku, Visions, p. 76.
Page 119: " Please! Please! I need this! It's so important...' " Raku, Visions, p. 92.
Page 120: Neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio of the University of Iowa...
Cavelos, p. 98.
Page 120: "Computers just don't get it." Cavelos, p. 101.
Page 120: As Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote... Barrow, Theories of Everything, p. 149.
Page 121: "Our successors will be amazed by the amount of scientific rubbish .. ."Sydney Brenner, New Scientist Magazine, November 18, 2006, p. 35.
Page 124: "It is possible that we may become pets of the computers..."
Raku, Visions, p. 135.
Page 124: "When that happens, our DNA will find itself out of a job,..."
Raku, Visions, p. 188.
Page 124: So in the long term some have advocated a merging of carbon
and silicon technology... So our mechanical creations may ultimately be the
key to our long-term survival. As Marvin Minsky says, "We humans are not
the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point
in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we
can't." Rruglinski, "The 100 Top Science Stories of 2006," p. 18.
Page 125: In the far future, robots or humanlike cyborgs... Immortality,