Jaron Lanier Quote

The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence.... eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious "proof" that such adventures are futile.


"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)


The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's...

The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's...

The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's...

The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's...