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Ray Kurzweil
“Machines can pool their resources, intelligence, and memories. Two machines—or one million machines—can join together to become one and then become separate again. Multiple machines can do both at the same time: become one and separate simultaneously. Humans call this falling in love, but our biological ability to do this is fleeting and unreliable.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
“Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person’s capacity to act. The”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Lundy Bancroft
“Outside of my professional life, I have known many couples over the years who had passion and electricity between them and who treated each other well. But unfortunately there is wide acceptance in our society of the unhealthy notion that passion and aggression are interwoven and that cruel verbal exchanges and bomblike explosions are the price you pay for a relationship that is exciting, deep, and sexy. Popular romantic movies and soap operas sometimes reinforce this image. Most”
Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Ray Kurzweil
“Stephen Hawking recently commented in the German magazine Focus that computer intelligence will surpass that of humans within a few decades. He advocated that we “urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain, so that computers can add to human intelligence, rather than be in opposition.”25 Hawking can take comfort that the development program he is recommending is well under way.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Ray Kurzweil
“When a machine manages to be simultaneously meaningful and surprising in the same rich way, it too compels a mentalistic interpretation. Of course, somewhere behind the scenes, there are programmers who, in principle, have a mechanical interpretation. But even for them, that interpretation loses its grip as the working program fills its memory with details too voluminous for them to grasp.”
Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

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