N. Jay

“Is a mind a complicated kind of abstract pattern that develops in an underlying physical substrate, such as a vast network of nerve cells? If so, could something else be substituted for the nerve cells – something such as ants, giving rise to an ant colony that thinks as a whole and has an identity – that is to say, a self? Or could something else be substituted for the tiny nerve cells, such as millions of small computational units made of arrays of transistors, giving rise to an artificial neural network with a conscious mind? Or could software simulating such richly interconnected computational units be substituted, giving rise to a conventional computer (necessarily a far faster and more capacious one than we have ever seen) endowed with a mind and a soul and free will?”
― Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma

“I’m dead, Jack, dead. As dead as Isidora the crow, stiff and stuffed on an imaginary pedestal…”
― Jonathan Dunne, Hearts Anonymous

“Bahwa menikah itu nasib, mencintai itu takdir, kau bisa berencana menikah dengan siapa, tapi tak bisa kau rencanajan cintamu untuk siapa.”
― Sujiwo Tejo, Talijiwo

“Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.”
― Thomas Otway