“Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains are activated as if you were petting the actual cat. Our minds may know the difference between its models and reality itself, but it prefers… — David Marusek Copy Share
“The journey of a thousands suns begins today. Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger. To them I say that no sacrifice is too dear and no danger too great to ensure the very survival of our human species. What will we find when we arrive at our new homes? That's an open question. For… — David Marusek Copy Share
“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual organisms don't evolve; populations do. Nature doesn't give a damn about individuals. The only role we play in evolution is surviving long enough to give birth to offspring who are slightly different from us. Some of our offspring… — David Marusek Copy Share
“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Why do we need so many people on Earth? I ask you. What are they good for? They live out ludicrous lives of pointless desperation. Ninety-nine percent of the human population is so much wasted resources. Stubborn vermin, we humans are. Granted, in the past, the unwashed masses were necessary. We needed them to till our fields and fight our… — David Marusek Copy Share
“And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“The person who works for recognition devalues the work he does, that awards are first and foremost political instruments, that altruism's true name is… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
![“What a mistake that had been, to create a construct [AI] that could suffer. He knew that now. Life, pain, death, they were no playthings. Biology was serious business, not for amateurs and foolish gods.” quote by David Marusek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88b/david-marusek-27635_ai_what-a-mistake-that-had-been-to-create-a_391274.jpg)
![“Intelligence is not limited to neural networks, Merrill. Indeed, half of human intelligence resides in our bodies outside our skulls…The genius of the irrational…This is the body’s intelligence, not the mind’s. Every living cell possess it…[the] indomitable will to survive.” quote by David Marusek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/596/david-marusek-27635_ai_intelligence-is-not-limited-to-neural-ne_1172072.jpg)
