An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind. - Marvin Minsky

Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.

Most of our future attempts to build large, growing Artificial Intelligences will be subject to all sorts of mental disorders.

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves — apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge — and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers — but not to us as psychologists — because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.