There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

Sometimes you don’t just want to risk making mistakes; you actually want to make them - if only to give you something clear and detailed to fix.

It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

Words are memes that can be pronounced.

Atheism, a term which will, I'm sure, eventually become as unnecessary as round-earthism.