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The Brain Weighs Only Three Pounds, Yet It Is The Most Complex Object In The Solar System.

There Are So Many Wonders Awaiting Us. If We Can Upload Memories, Then We Might Be Able To Combat Alzheimers, As Well As Create A Brain-net Of Memories And Emotions To Replace The Internet, Which Would Revolutionize Entertainment, The Economy, And Our Way Of Life. Maybe Even To Help Us Live Forever, And Send Consciousness Into Outer Space.

Like Music Or Art, Mathematical Equations Can Have A Natural Progression And Logic That Can Evoke Rare Passions In A Scientist. Although The Lay Public Considers Mathematical Equations To Be Rather Opaque, To A Scientist An Equation Is Very Much Like A Movement In A Larger Symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These Are The Qualities That Have Inspired Some Of The Greatest Artists To Create Their Masterpieces, And They Are Precisely The Same Qualities That Motivate Scientists To Search For The Laws Of Nature. Like A Work Of Art Or A Haunting Poem, Equations Have A Beauty And Rhythm All Their Own.

As Heinz Pagels Has Said, The Challenge To Our Civilization Which Has Come From Our Knowledge Of The Cosmic Energies That Fuels The Stars, The Movement Of Light And Electrons Through Matter, The Intricate Molecular Order Which Is The Biological Basis Of Life, Must Be Met By The Creation Of A Moral And Political Order Which Will Accommodate These Forces Or We Shall Be Destroyed. It Will Try Our Deepest Resources Of Reason And Compassion.

Until Computers And Robots Make Quantum Advances, They Basically Remain Adding Machines: Capable Only Of Doing Things In Which All The Variables Are Controlled And Predictable. Robots Are Bad At Pattern Recognition And Certainly At Common Sense. That's Why Computers Can Beat Humans In Chess But Can't Have Even A Basic Conversation With A Six-year-old.