Minds are simply what brains do.
An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.
Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.