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

“Young man, you don’t think I’m encountering constructive symbolism for the first time, do you? “Unplug”: free yourself from physicality, from the vulgar earthbound physicality, from the evils of civilization, from electricity, nerves, and so on. Isn’t that what this is? The association is crystal clear, I’d be tempted to say, perhaps even too obvious” (Kishon 1987)

The distinction between a “tool” and a prosthesis that is implanted into the body is more apparent than real. …

But you comprehend the result ? … Man’s complete triumph over disease by this process of dissolution and rehabilitation

If I do not greatly deceive myself, I have succeeded in realizing… the hundred years’ dream of physicists and physiologists, to wit, the identity of the nervous principle with electricity

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

Our first step in understanding the mind, is to understand neurons …

Neural computers do not execute typical machine instructions of digital computers unless they are made to emulate the behavior of physical neural networks

Artificial intelligence belongs in the history of human intelligence

New discoveries, new technologies, new social arrangements in the external world erupt into our lives in the form of increased turnover rates.
They set the stage for that potentially devastating social illness—future shock.