Believe Quote by Thomas Nagel

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph…

— Daniel Dennett

“In the twenty-first century it sounds childish to compare the human psyche to a steam engine. Today we know of a far more sophisticated…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Our computers double in capability on time scales of only a few years. It's hardly outrageous to believe that we will successfully develop thinking…

— Seth Shostak

The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.

— Siri Hustvedt

The mind is an evolved computer program.

— Eric Baum

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

— Roger Penrose

In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of…

— Isaac Asimov

Not only have computers changed the way we think, they've also discovered what makes humans think - or think we're thinking. At least enough…

— Douglas Rushkoff

The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting…

— J. C. R. Licklider

Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form of consciousness…

— Michio Kaku

Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of…

— Olga Kurylenko

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however,…

— Tom Chatfield