"The obvious inability of present-day physics and chemistry to account for such events is no reason at all for doubting that they can be accounted for by those sciences."

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• "It is certainly very hard, and perhaps impossible, for mere humans to anticipate and rule out in advance all the disastrous ways the machine could choose to achieve a specified objective."quote0.820
  Russell's statement opening Section 2 articulating the core motivation for the Contemplative AI approach
• Can events within living organisms be accounted for by physics and chemistry?question0.813
  Foundational question of the book; Schrödinger's answer: yes, but requires quantum mechanics, not classical physics.
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.795
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• Consciousness remains without an agreed scientific characterization, without a validated theory connecting mechanism to experience, and without criteria for establishing its presence or absence in any systemclaim0.789
  CIMC's characterization of the current state of the field motivating its research program
• Much of what is written by philosophers of science is either false or incomplete because they do not take account of the implications of Schrödinger's ideas for chemistry and biology.claim0.785
  Sloman's broad methodological critique of philosophy of science.
• "For interpretability, I don't think we even have the right definitions."quote0.784
  Ian Goodfellow quote used to illustrate the pre-paradigmatic state of interpretability research
• "[W]e must confess that perception, and what depends upon it, is inexplicable in terms of mechanical reasons... when inspecting its interior, we will find only parts that push one another, and we will never find anything to explain a perception."quote0.777
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• "We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity."concept0.774
  Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964); establishes design's relationship to intelligence amplification and early AI discourse.