An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Eventually, robots will make everything.

But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.