In hmolscience, Ray Kurzweil (1948-) is an American computer technology inventor and futurist noted for his 2000 The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, wherein he asks “how do we reconcile the emergence of intelligent life with the law of increasing entropy?”, and attempts alternative answers to this query, and his follow-up 2005 The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, wherein he digs into similar type of mind-brain modern science type problems. The following is a representative quote from the latter: [2]
“If we were magically shrunk and put into someone’s brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away, and we would be able to describe their workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would nowhere contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, and levers!”
— Gottfried Leibniz (c.1700)
References
1. Kurzweil, Ray. (2000). The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (pg. #). Penguin.
2. Kurzweil, Ray. (2005). The Singularity is Near (Leibniz quote, pg. #). Penguin.
External links
● Ray Kurzweil – Wikipedia.
