#singular

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns. ↗

— David Marusek

#imagination

Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may know the difference between its models and reality itself, but it prefers its models. So much so that we apprehend reality through our models, rather than directly via the sense. When I'm speaking to you, I have a little bishop in my head, and though I speak out load, I'm speaking to my little bishop. When you answer, I can only perceive you through my model of you. Mentars also make models, but they don't apprehend reality through them. They end up, not with little people in their minds, but with highly complex rule sets. They relate to their models in the same way we relate to weather models, as things to consult, but not to conflate with external reality. ↗

— David Marusek

#perception #reality #singularity #imagination

You realize, there is no free-will in anything we create with Artificial Intelligence... ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#memories-with-maya #singularity #transhumanism #intelligence

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#commands #higher #more #price #seduction

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view? ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#approach #how #human #human world #singularity

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#singularity #technological #will

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#bible #humor #literature #most #singular

But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#science-vs-religion #singularity #transhumanism #religion

During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result. ↗

— Walther Bothe

#being #constantly #decisively #discuss #done