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"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
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"Your fundamental assumption is wrong. You think you are this vehicle. This naked ape. Homo sapiens. I tell you, you are no more human than a driver is the car he is driving. You would never go to a junkyard to look for the driver would you?"
"When you achieve higher consciousness you will not achieve anything, but you will lose everything that is not important and is not yours."
"Consciousness ain't slower than a blink of an eye."
"It takes a certain level of consciousness to 'want' to grow your consciousness."
"Writing when perched along a ledge of conscious awareness while simultaneously giving voice to the unconscious voice tumbling within allows a writer to tap into the external world of the known while also exploring the unconscious world of the unknown and the unknowable. For as long as I can stand the mounting pressure, I dance along this tremulous thin line separating sanity and insanity, mediating the conflicts between a lucid intellect and an impulsive, instinctual nature. Captivated in this submerged psyche space, disengaged from conscious tether of personal identity, and free from the jaundiced constraints and dictatorial commands of rational logic, I operate unencumbered by preconceived limitations."
"When consciousness is there, can life be far away?"
"The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness."
"Consciousness is a born hermit."
"Consciousness is the awareness of the interaction and interdependence among mind, body, spirit, and the universe where it resides."
"On the high-end spectrum of emotions, which are innately connected to intuition and direct comprehension as well as imagination and creativity, meaning true empathy and knowledge, appreciative realization, transformation and invention, one finds a richer and more voluptuous combination of experience. Unfortunately, to "get there, one has to be willing to sacrifice what is known for what is not."
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"You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really."
"As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book."
"As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of."
"I'm not a great believer in awards-of course the fact that I've never won one has nothing to do with it at all!"
"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."
"I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese."
"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."
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