The age of spiritual machines---Ray Kurzweil
We like to solve problem, but we don't want them all solved, not too quickly, anyway. We are more attached to the problems than to solutions.
Take death, for example. A great deal of out effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and indeed often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we would find it hard to live without it. Deaath gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end up.....(p.2)
We like to solve problem, but we don't want them all solved, not too quickly, anyway. We are more attached to the problems than to solutions.
Take death, for example. A great deal of out effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and indeed often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we would find it hard to live without it. Deaath gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it. If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end up.....(p.2)
