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But pain is not merely physical. As anyone who has had to sit through the first Star Wars prequel can tell you, we humans are capable of experiencing acute psychological pain as well.
“Suppose that there be a machine, the structure of which produces thinking, feeling, and perceiving; imagine this machine enlarged but preserving the same proportions, so you could enter it as if it were a mill. This being supposed, you might visit inside; but what would you observe there? Nothing but parts which push and move each other, and never anything that could explain perception. —Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz”
― How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
― How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
“What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?”
― Permutation City
― Permutation City
“Simulated consciousness” was as oxymoronic as “simulated addition.”
― Permutation City
― Permutation City
“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
― How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business
Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
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