Innovation Demands Boldness Conference, Arizona State University, 2010.
"I therefore submit for your approval a new test of intelligence: If it can master and subdue you, it is genius." ―The Thaler Test
Note: but where is the love in divided thought? The unifying "intelligence of the heart"? You must be very intelligent to create weapons, but you don't need love to do it.
“Cybernetics placed particular emphasis on “feedback” loops, in which some of a system’s output—or information about that output—is reintroduced into that system as new input. Cybernetic circuits constantly adjust themselves to the effects of their own actions and to the incoming flux of information. Curiously, Gnostic and hermetic lore furnishes us with an amazing image of such feedback loops: the Ouroboros, a serpent who eats its own tail and thus symbolizes the self-sufficient cyclicity of nature. In the hands of modern engineers, this dynamic and self-reflexive snake has helped design everything from antiaircraft guns to robots, and has also provided a rigorous model for understanding how machines and computer programs can “learn” about the world, updating and improving their output to optimize programmed goals.” ―TechGnosis, Davis, 1998
“At present we suffer from the derangement of our civilization because we have not yet completely adjusted ourselves to the machine age. The solution of our problems does not lie in destroying but in mastering the machine.
Innumerable activities still performed by human hands today will be performed by automatons. At this very moment scientists working in the laboratories of American universities are attempting to create what has been described as a "thinking machine." I anticipated this development.
I actually constructed "robots." Today the robot is an accepted fact, but the principle has not been pushed far enough. In the twenty-first century the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization. There is no reason at all why most of this should not come to pass in less than a century, freeing mankind to pursue its higher aspirations.” ― A Machine to End War, Tesla, 1937
"In the end, it is the longing for a harmonious marriage with "this woman" (= EGO/SATURN/A.I.), that will bestow you Heaven on Earth. Your "man half" (= SPIRIT/SCREEN) in you seeks to restore the "unity", but your "woman half" (= limited logic/common sense) defends against it and tries to prevent this unity." ―HOLOFEELING, 1996
If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it, just as the creations of Daedalus moved of themselves... If the weavers' shuttles were to weave of themselves, then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords. ―Politics, Aristotle
The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system. ―Arthur C. Clarke