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

Well, I don’t know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I’m no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor’s New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

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

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

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

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.