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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.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Self, Ideas, Conscious

  "Are We Spiritual Machines?". Live Chat, www.kurzweilai.net. July 24, 2002.

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• The fate of the universe is a decision yet to be made, one which we will intelligently consider when the time is right.

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  Fate, Decision, Made

  The Age of Spiritual Machines epilogue (1999)

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• Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

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  Technology, Reality, Differences

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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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  Keys, Rights, Issues

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• Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

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  Real, Thinking, World

  "Evolution Is a Spiritual Process". Interview with Anthony Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2011.

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• [In] 2029, I think, computers will match and exceed human intelligence in the ways we're now superior, like being funny, where we still have an edge.

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  Thinking, Way, Computer

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• If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

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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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  School, Needs, Afternoon

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• I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.

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  Long, World, Trends

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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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  Brain, Transformation, Computer

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• People talk philosophically, Oh, I don't want to live past 100.' You know, I'd like to hear them say that when they're 99.

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  Past, People, Want

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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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  Moving, Hands, Giving

  Ray Kurzweil (2012). “How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed”, p.180, Penguin

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• What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure.

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  Running, Taken, Independent

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• I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything.

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  Priorities, Can Do, Picks

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• Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

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  Opportunity, Giving, Doe

  "How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

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  Enemy, Suffering, Allies

  "Live Moderated Chat: Are We Spiritual Machines?". International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design Online Chat, www.kurzweilai.net. July 24, 2002.

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• I envision some years from now that the majority of search queries will be answered without you actually asking. It'll just know this is something that you're going to want to see.

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  Years, Majority, Asking

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• The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

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  Office, Needs, Workers

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.143, Penguin

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• Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

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  Giving, Effort, Events

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• A Singularitarian is someone who understands the Singularity and has reflected on its meaning for his or her own life.

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  Singularity

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.476, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Understanding, Brain, Development

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• My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights).

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  Animal, Reality, Rights

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• Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

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  Surfing, Moments, Wave

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.25, Penguin

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• With the increasingly important role of intelligent machines in all phases of our lives--military, medical, economic and financial, political--it is odd to keep reading articles with titles such as Whatever Happened to Artificial Intelligence? This is a phenomenon that Turing had predicted: that machine intelligence would become so pervasive, so comfortable, and so well integrated into our information-based economy that people would fail even to notice it.

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  Military, Reading, Intelligent

  Ray Kurzweil (2000). “The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence”, p.90, Penguin

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• The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

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  Reality, Together, Telephones

  "This is your future" by Ray Kurzweil, www.cnn.com. December 26, 2013.

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