#ai

And they discovered something very interesting: when it comes to walking, most of the ant's thinking and decision-making is not in its brain at all. It's distributed. It's in its legs. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brain #comes #decision-making #discovered #distributed

Other women looked on me as a rival. And it pained me a great deal. ↗

— Grace Kelly

#great #great deal #looked #me #other

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#brain #cannot #kind #modules #network

It's more along the lines of raising a child: we train the system to a certain range of behaviors that we find most useful. But then we let it go, because we don't want to have to be babysitting it the whole time. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#babysitting #because #behaviors #certain #child

Basins of attraction, of self organization, show up as well in our complex social environment, in human organizations. Here again, while we cannot predict the result of any given input, we can say that it will likely fall within one of several areas. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#any #areas #attraction #cannot #complex

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#because #bonds #certain #chemical #computer

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

#been #daily #i #island #mill

The most certain thing you can say about the environment tomorrow is that it probably is going to be just like today, for the most part. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#certain #environment #going #just #like

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#after #aircraft #applied #carrier #first

Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person. ↗

— R. Kelly

#battle #every #failed #forever #go