"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."

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• "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."concept0.820
  Load-bearing epistemological statement; Schrödinger argues that current ignorance does not imply impossibility—motivates search for deeper theory.
• "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."concept0.815
  Alexander, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (1964); establishes design's relationship to intelligence amplification and early AI discourse.
• "[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."quote0.803
  Canonical illustration of the Hard Problem intuition that any functional/mechanical explanation faces an explanatory gap for perception
• We hypothesize that general computational machines with sufficient resources possess the necessary and sufficient means to implement consciousness, and that successful implementation can be established via analysis or testing.hypothesis0.803
  The central hypothesis of the paper
• "[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."quote0.802
  Load-bearing quote from Monadology §17 providing earliest clear statement of the Hard Problem
• We evaluate the relative life of a process by making predictions based on thought-experiments or simulations.claim0.802
• "For interpretability, I don't think we even have the right definitions."quote0.798
  Ian Goodfellow quote used to illustrate the pre-paradigmatic state of interpretability research
• Modern machines, including quantum computers and machine learning systems, achieve reliable function through uncertain events, making unpredictability a feature rather than a defect.claim0.797
  Argument that predictability is no longer an essential property distinguishing machines from life