{"author":"Clyde DeSouza","author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"What use was time to those who'd soon achieve Digital Immortality?","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","cyberpunk","posthumanism","science","scifi","time","time-travel","transhumanism"],"id":2546,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Bad things happen to good people: The Jesus Christ Syndrome, I labeled it.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["aetheism","inspirational-life","transhumanism"],"id":9132,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Emotions - Happiness, anger, jealousy... Is the mind experiencing 'presence' in our holographic existence.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","holographic-universe","hypothetical-situation","parallel-realities","parallel-universe","parallel-universes","parallel-world","post-human","simulation","universe","virtual-reality"],"id":41410,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"You can't hack your destiny, brute force...You need a back door, a side channel into Life.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","cyberpunk","destiny","emotional-intelligence","fate","hacking","life-lessons","life-philosophy","singularity","transcendence","transhumanism"],"id":50889,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","atheism","augmented-reality","inspirational-life","posthumanism","transcendentalism"],"id":64242,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","destiny","fate","free-will","god-s-will","humanity","posthumanism","sadism","transhumanism"],"id":82211,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"You realize that there is no free will in what we create with AI. Everything functions within rules andparameters.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["ai","artificial-intelligence","consciousness","free-will","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-thought"],"id":82822,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","emotional-intelligence","emotions","hard-sci-fi","immortality","logic","logical-thinking","science-fiction","scifi","transhumanism"],"id":146721,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["emotions-inspiration","life-lessons","life-philosophy"],"id":174122,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that makes us human.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","emotional-intelligence","emotions","humanity","humanity-and-society","imperfection"],"id":247826,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}