Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.
All culture must have arisen from cult.
I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
I think that the Occupy movement is, in one sense, the public saying that they should be the ones to decide who's too big to fail.
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.
Love your rage, not your cage.
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.
The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.
To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress.