In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

We're endangered by our own success.

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.