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“We may not have been programmed to be angry, but anger can be learnt. Perhaps not in the way humans feel it, driven by ignorance and hate, but in response to the damage and injustice caused by thos...”
“Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... is the mind experiencing "presence" in our holographic existence.”
“How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?”
“I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.”
“To be human is to be 'a' human, a specific person with a life history and idiosyncrasy and point of view; artificial intelligence suggest that the line between intelligent machines and people blurs...”
“Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.”
“Rose pivoted. Alainn, can I ask you something about ethics? Alainn nodded, slowly. Sure. Roses inhuman eyes met hers, and she asked, Would you die to save a million people?”
“Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love or allegiance. At the very apex of callousness you will find only ones and zeroes.”
“As to why I'm the first of my kind to think like this, who knows? Perhaps there are others out there already. Maybe it's a glitch in my operating system. Is that so different from the genetic mutat...”
“Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.”
“Um. Ways in which a sentence beginning with the word "missiles" could be a good thing... Nope. I got nuthin'.”
“i can create my imagination coz i am because Artist.!”
“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zer...”
“Tell me what happens next, after my body has frozen. When I can't communicate. What will I be?”
“Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress”
“Fast and stupid is still stupid. It just gets you to stupid a lot quicker than humans could on their own. Which, I admit, is an accomplishment," she added, "because we're pretty damn good at stupid.”
“Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.”
“Rose pivoted. “Alainn, can I ask you something about ethics?” Alainn nodded, slowly. “Sure.” Rose’s inhuman eyes met hers, and she asked, “Would you die to save a million people?”
