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Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more opposable thumb in the digital world than I care for; it's awfully close to human.

When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.

We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Humans are very imaginative animals.

Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.