Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this … - Ray Kurzweil

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The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried about Rover and Fluffy?

Ray Kurzweil

Biology is a software process. Our bodies are made up of trillions of cells, each governed by this process. You and I are walking around with outdated software running in our bodies, which evolved in a very different era.

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Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.

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All of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.

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We appear to be programmed with the idea that there are 'things' outside of our self, and some are conscious, and some are not.

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Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has been achieved in systems like Watson should give anyone substantial confidence that the advent of Turing-level AI is close at hand. If one were to create a version of Watson that was optimized for the Turing test, it would probably come pretty close.

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The key issue as to whether or not a non-biological entity deserves rights really comes down to whether or not it's conscious. . . . Does it have feelings?

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