We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.
Artificial intelligence, in fact, is obviously an intelligence transmitted by conscious subjects, an intelligence placed in equipment. It has a clear origin, in fact, in the intelligence of the human creators of such equipment.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.
A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed by God, our Creator.
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human contrivance.
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
It's not just human nature to associate in tribes. It's deeper than that.
It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
