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Sometimes People Talk About Conflict Between Humans And Machines, And You Can See That In A Lot Of Science Fiction. But The Machines Were Creating Are Not Some Invasion From Mars. We Create These Tools To Expand Our Own Reach.

I Do Have To Pick My Priorities. Nobody Can Do Everything.

We Appear To Be Programmed With The Idea That There Are 'things' Outside Of Our Self, And Some Are Conscious, And Some Are Not.

There Is One Brain Organ That Is Optimised For Understanding And Articulating Logical Processes And That Is The Outer Layer Of The Brain, Called The Cerebral Cortex. Unlike The Rest Of The Brain, This Relatively Recent Evolutionary Development Is Rather Flat, Only About 0.32 Cm (0.12 In) Thick And Includes A Mere 6 Million Neurons. This Elaborately Folded Organ Provides Us With What Little Competence We Do Possess For Understanding What We Do And Who We Do It.

Intuition Is Linear; Our Imaginations Are Weak. Even The Brightest Of Us Only Extrapolate From What We Know Now; For The Most Part, We're Afraid To Really Stretch.