Quotes from the book " God Human Animal Machine"

This is a fascinating book by Meghan O'Gieblyn. This mixes philosophy, spirituality, theology, Artificial Intelligence, and human thought evaluation.

Here are a few interesting quotes from the book that struck me.

The actual molecules of water change every millisecond, but the pattern persists for hours or even years.

Our new digital selves will entirely lack subjective experience, the phenomenon we most often associate with words like "spirit" and "soul".

Intelligence is in the eye of the observer.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Selfish conduct is rooted in the belief that we are wholly separate and distinct individuals. We must abandon the idea, that humans are at the center of the ethical universe and bestow value on the rest of the natural world only insofar as it suits humanity's ends.

Saying about philosophers: "One starts as a materialist, then one becomes a dualist, then a panpsychist, and one ends up as an idealist".

If you predict the weather by looking at air patterns, precipitation, and other laws, you are affirming the modern notion that the world is a mechanistic place of order, laws, and rules. If you predict the weather by reading bird entrails, however, as the ancient Greeks did, "you are revealing the world as the sort of place where what happens depends on hidden connections of meaning.

Happy reading !!!