"The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on……" — Vernor Vinge

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• I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to… — Jo Brand
• Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated… — Tim Field
• It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world… — Gregory A. Boyd
• Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from… — Rodney Brooks
• Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what… — Daisaku Ikeda
• I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business… — Richard Jefferies
• If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense… — Robert A. Heinlein
• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard… — Randall Munroe
• If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the… — Emma Goldman
• To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds.… — Ma Jian
• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin
• Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering… — Evgeny Morozov

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