Biology Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“1.​Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.​Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. 3.​Non-conscious…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“1. Are organisms really just algorithms, and is life really just data processing? 2. What’s more valuable – intelligence or consciousness? 3. What will…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If we think in term of months, we had probably focus on immediate problems such as the turmoil in the Middle East, the refugee…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“present we have no idea how or why dataflows could produce consciousness and subjective experiences. Maybe we’ll have a good explanation in twenty years.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It is the life sciences that concluded that organisms are algorithms. If this is not the case – if organisms function in an inherently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods for processing…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet once biologists concluded that organisms are algorithms, they dismantled the wall between the organic and the inorganic, turned the computer revolution from a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Suppose non-conscious algorithms could eventually outperform conscious intelligence in all known data-processing tasks – what, if anything, would be lost by replacing conscious intelligence…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Vernor Vinge

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Science is based on our intelligence.

— Ashwani Kumar Ojha

“I think that the people that say we will never develop computer intelligence — they merely prove that some biological systems don't have much intelligence.”

— Arthur C. Clarke