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Scientific Revolutions, Almost By Definition, Defy Common Sense.

Today, Your Cell Phone Has More Computer Power Than All Of Nasa Back In 1969, When It Placed Two Astronauts On The Moon. Video Games, Which Consume Enormous Amounts Of Computer Power To Simulate 3-d Situations, Use More Computer Power Than Mainframe Computers Of The Previous Decade. The Sony Playstation Of Today, Which Costs $300, Has The Power Of A Military Supercomputer Of 1997, Which Cost Millions Of Dollars.

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.

Physicists Are Made Of Atoms. A Physicist Is An Attempt By An Atom To Understand Itself.

Robots May Gradually Attain A Degree Of 'self-awareness' And Consciousness Of Their Own.