This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.
Lucy GrealyTags: life pain wrong ugly face singularity ugliness
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
Jane AustenTags: suffering actions life-lessons singularity lady-russell
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
Haruki MurakamiTags: individuals singularity generalizations
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
Alan M. TuringTags: singularity
These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.
Cory DoctorowTags: singularity facebook
The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)
Charles StrossTags: eschatology singularity rapture-of-the-nerds
But this was the real world wasn't it? Miracles must happen in some parallel universe.
Clyde DeSouzaTags: science-fiction-romance science-vs-religion singularity transhumanism
You realize, there is no free-will in anything we create with Artificial Intelligence...
Clyde DeSouzaTags: artificial-intelligence singularity transhumanism memories-with-maya
Quantum fluctuations are, at their root, completely a-causal, in the sense that cause and effect and ordering of events in time is not a part of how these fluctuations work. Because of this, there seem not to be any correlations built into these kinds of fluctuations because 'law' as we understand the term requires some kind of cause-and-effect structure to pre-exist. Quantum fluctuations can precede physical law, but it seems that the converse is not true. So in the big bang, the establishment of 'law' came after the event itself, but of course even the concept of time and causality may not have been quite the same back then as they are now.
Sten F. OdenwaldTags: science universe cosmology physics laws quantum-mechanics big-bang causation cause-and-effect singularity quantum a-causal fluctuations quantum-fluctuations
Everytime you think of your father, you resurrect him. Why shouldn't he continue a posthuman life in this world while he's resting in the other?
Clyde DeSouzaTags: science artificial-intelligence singularity transhumanism augmented-reality mind-uploading posthuman
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