#artificial

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#artificial #child #find #his #i

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#backgrounds #bludgeon #conformity #consequences #followers

Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith. ↗

— Peter Watts

#comprehension #data-analysis #post-modern-technofaith #wisdom #faith

When it’s not enough to veto your children’s tendencies, you must in vitro them. ↗

— Bauvard

#children #funny #humor #parenting #funny

I think they are a better race than humans ever were. ↗

— Angelo Tsanatelis

#cyberpunk #cyborg #genetic-engineering #science-fiction #intelligence

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. ↗

— Artur Davis

#begin #blinded #columns #denver #end

Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#because #big #close #get #i

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#certain #death #face #give #off

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#men #pearls #swine

EVEN RANDOMNESS IS WITHIN A SET OF PARAMETERS; THRESHOLDS... ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#posthumanism #sifi #transhumanism #intelligence