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“If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you’ve let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

“Part of the interest and importance of this finding is that it shows that cognitive influences, originating here purely at the word-level, can reach down and modulate activations in the first stage of cortical processing that represents the value of sensory stimuli.”
― Phil Barden

“Another example of the certainty principle is that we value things we already own particularly highly. Nothing is more certain than holding something in our hands. Consumers who were given a coffee mug demanded twice as much to give it up as other consumers were willing to pay for it. Behavioural economists refer to this bias as the ‘endowment effect’.”
― Phil Barden

“Whatever the motivation, Turing authored the first trope to support the idea that bits can be alive on their own, independent of human observers.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget