Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

If you didn’t have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn’t be morality but with consciousness that you have it.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.

My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go.

What right do we have to claim, as some might, that human beings are the only inhabitants of our planet blessed with an actual ability to be "aware"? The impression of a "conscious presence" is indeed very strong with me when I look at a dog or a cat or, especially, when an ape or monkey at the zoo looks at me. I do not ask that they are "self-aware" in any strong sense (though I would guess that an element of self-awareness can be present). All I ask is that they sometimes simply feel!

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.