Are We Spiritual Machines?: Ray Kurzweil Vs. the Critics of Strong AI |
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... Moore's Law . " Gor- don Moore , one of the inventors of integrated circuits , and then chair- man of Intel , noted in the mid - 1970s that we could squeeze ... Moore's Law : The Law of Accelerating Returns Where 18 THE EVOLUTION OF MIND.
... Moore's Law . " Gor- don Moore , one of the inventors of integrated circuits , and then chair- man of Intel , noted in the mid - 1970s that we could squeeze ... Moore's Law : The Law of Accelerating Returns Where 18 THE EVOLUTION OF MIND.
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... Moore's Law . Evolution started with vast chaos and little effective order , so early progress was slow . But evolution creates ever - increasing order . That is , after all , the es- sence of evolution . Order is the opposite of chaos ...
... Moore's Law . Evolution started with vast chaos and little effective order , so early progress was slow . But evolution creates ever - increasing order . That is , after all , the es- sence of evolution . Order is the opposite of chaos ...
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... Moore's Law will have left off , without missing a beat . " We know this , Kurzweil assures us , from " The Law of Accelerating Returns , " which is a basic attribute of the universe ; indeed it is a sublaw of " The Law of Time and ...
... Moore's Law will have left off , without missing a beat . " We know this , Kurzweil assures us , from " The Law of Accelerating Returns , " which is a basic attribute of the universe ; indeed it is a sublaw of " The Law of Time and ...
Contents
The Evolution of Mind in the TwentyFirst Century | 12 |
The Flawed Analogy | 78 |
Kurzweils Impoverished Spirituality | 98 |
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