“The Law of Time and Chaos: In a process, the time interval between salient events (that is, events that change the nature of the process, or significantly affect the future of the process) expands of contracts along with the amount of chaos.”

—  Ray Kurzweil

The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999)

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