Robert J. Marks II Quotes

Individual self-sovereignty is a load-bearing pillar on which liberty rests.

Computers can only analyze inside the box. Remarkable humans have the meta-ability to go outside ourselves, look back inside, and explore our abilities. We can understand understanding, think about thinking, and … know about the unknowable

[The robot] Sophia has been granted citizenship in Saudi Arabia. And Homer Simpson has been given citizenship in Winnipeg, Ontario. Both decisions are silly. The difference is that the city of Winnipeg acknowledged that their action was a joke.

AI [artificial intelligence] is like a toddler with a Ph.D.. It’s really smart, but it still needs to be supervised.

Emotions that make us human will never be duplicated by a machine. These include compassion, love, empathy, elation, sadness, fear, anger, disgust, pleasure, pride, excitement, embarrassment, regret, jealousy, grief, hope, and faith. Properly defined, creativity, sentience, and understanding are also on the list. These and other non-algorithmic traits are evidence of non-computable you.

The ultimate success of AI is not due to journal papers, blogs, press releases, forecasts, corporate acquisitions, speculation, or promises. Success is measured by reduction to practice.

Can anyone write code to explain to a computer their sensory experience of enjoying hot buttered sweet corn?

There is no foundational mathematical or physical reason the relationship between Pythagorean and tempered western music should exist. It just does. The rich flexibility of the tempered scale and the … bountiful archives of western music are a testimonial to this wonderful coincidence provided by nature.

The better we understand creation and the possibilities of logic and algorithms, the more we see the glory of God.

Robots deserve no more human rights than a 3D printer or toaster.

[N]on-algorithmic computing in digital silicon is an oxymoron.

Turning a soul into an algorithm is pure nonsense.

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry.

Is it wrong to pray for God to make me more successful so that I can be more humble?

[On Chaitin's Constant:] Chaiton's work in identifying it is an intellectually stunning piece of mathematics with the clear philosophical and theological implication that our universe is not fully explainable in materialist terms.