The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.