We have heretofore confused the notion of the power with which the soul acts on the body with the power with which one body acts on another

You who calculate?… Why not use Brains of Steel which never tire?

The Navy said the perceptron would be the first non-living mechanism capable of receiv­ing, recognizing and identifying its surroundings without any human training or control

The mechanism of action of nerve stimulation is unknown… it is possible that substances are formed under the influence of nerve stimulation

Whereas the notion of a “correct” computation is unproblematic … The notion of a “good” translation is ridden with problems …

We expect our first application to be computer control for people with spinal cord injury. There are many other potential future applications for the Link. These include restoring motor and sensory function and the treatment of neurological disorders

Cognition is nothing but computation …

A machine that could think like a person has been the guiding vision of AI research since the earliest days…

Can we transfer information directly from one brain to another? And then link multiple brains into a hive-mind like the Borg? Could acquire new information without having actually to learn it? Experiments on rats seem to suggest that we can transfer memories from one brain to another, even when linking them over the internet.

Computers are only prostheses; they no more do calculations than clocks tell the time. Clocks help us to tell the time, butthey don’t do it by themselves