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 KurzweilAll of our schools need to bring 'learn from doing' into the mainstream education, not just afternoon.
Ray KurzweilI'm working on artificial intelligence. Actually, natural language understanding, which is to get computers to understand the meaning of documents.
Ray KurzweilThere are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
Ray KurzweilThe Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.
Ray Kurzweil