“The quest to rationally prove the possibility of sentience in a computer (or perhaps in the Internet) is the modern version of proving God's existence. …eventually a cybernetically minded twenty-first century version of Kant will appear in order to present a tedious "proof" that such adventures are futile.”

— Jaron Lanier

"One Half of a Manifesto," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

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