There Are No Good Reasons To Believe

I Have Shown That Those Who Deplore Artificial Intelligence Are Also Those Who Deplore The Evolutionary Accounts Of Human Mentality: If Human Minds Are Non-miraculous Products Of Evolution, Then They Are, In The Requisite Sense, Artifacts, And All Their Powers Must Have An Ultimately Mechanical Explanation. We Are Descended From Macros And Made Of Macros, And Nothing We Can Do Is Beyond The Power Of Huge Assemblies Of Macros.

Love Is Blind, As They Say, And Because Love Is Blind, It Often Leads To Tragedy: To Conflicts In Which One Love Is Pitted Against Another Love, And Something Has To Give, With Suffering Guaranteed In Any Resolution.

If The Concept Of Consciousness Were To Fall To Science, What Would Happen To Our Sense Of Moral Agency And Free Will? If Conscious Experience Were Reduced Somehow To Mere Matter In Motion, What Would Happen To Our Appreciation Of Love And Pain And Dreams And Joy? If Conscious Human Beings Were Just Animated Material Objects, How Could Anything We Do To Them Be Right Or Wrong?

I Am Inclined To Think That Nothing Could Matter More Than What People Love. At Any Rate, I Can Think Of No Value That I Would Place Higher. I Would Not Want To Live In A World Without Love.

Problems In Science Are Sometimes Made Easier By Adding Complications.