This could be a prelude to artificial intelligence networks on the Internet eventually leading to a powerful superintelligence via a technological singularity.

Weak superintelligence operates on the level of human brains, but much faster.

Strong superintelligence operates on a superior level, as a human brain is considered qualitatively superior to a dog's.

In Transhumanism, different currents disagree on the way to create a superintelligence.

There are several forms of critique on the aim to build a superintelligence.

Commenting on the vision of the technological singularity, a future time when people and machines would combine to form a new superintelligence, and at least a part of humanity might overcome biological limitations like death and disease, he has stated that " The Singularity is not the great vision for society that Lenin had or Milton Friedman might have.

The matter-fountains / matter-sinks are born, when a superintelligence fuses with all life and matter in its domain while shrinking.

The Singularity Institute's writings argue for the idea that an AI with the ability to improve upon its own design ( Seed AI ) would rapidly lead to superintelligence.

This term particularly applies to AIs which have the potential to significantly impact humanity, such as those with intelligence comparable to or exceeding that of humans (" superintelligence "; see strong AI and technological singularity ).

That Ezekiel endeavors, differently than others of the Bible's authors who describe mystic visions, to report about as many details of the design of what he has perceived as possible nourishes doubts that his account can usefully be interpreted merely on a mystical basis and strengthens tendencies to explain certain passages of the book as descriptions of sightings of a spacecraft.

It lives on what nourishes it.

Amphitrite is not fully personified in the Homeric epics: " out on the open sea, in Amphitrite's breakers " ( Odyssey iii. 101 ), " moaning Amphitrite " nourishes fishes " in numbers past all counting " ( Odyssey xii. 119

However, he also maintained that, beyond this, humans had an innate tendency to favor their own group over others ; saying, " Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exists in its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders " ( p. 13 ).

Animals continually feed on the tree, threatening it, but its vitality persists evergreen as it heals and nourishes the vibrant aggression of life.

Žemyna personifies the fertile earth and nourishes all life on earth, human, plant, and animal.

Father Tiber looks on at the lower right while the national lupa ( wolf ) nourishes Romulus and Remus, founders of Rome.

Some of the soil that nourishes the gardens of the memorial was brought from various locations all across Canada to represent the broad spectrum of Canadian men who fought shoulder to shoulder on the battlefields of 1915.

Discovered the lesser circulatory system ( the cycle involving the ventricles of the heart and the lungs ), and described the mechanism of breathing and its relation to the blood and how it nourishes on air in the lungs.

Like other members of its family, the grey reef shark is viviparous, meaning the mother nourishes her embryos through a placental connection.

Shortly after Ropartz died, Rene Dumesnil wrote in Le Monde: " There is with Ropartz a science of folklore and its proper use, which one admires ; but more often than the direct use of popular motifs it is an inspiration drawn from the same soil which nourishes the work, like sap in trees.

Two sperm nuclei from a pollen grain ( the microgametophyte ), rather than a single sperm, enter the archegonium of the megagametophyte ; one fuses with the egg nucleus to form the zygote, the other fuses with two other nuclei of the gametophyte to form ' endosperm ', which nourishes the developing embryo.

Owen Gleiberman, film critic for Entertainment Weekly, wrote " I'm not generally in the habit of praising documentaries for being good for you, but Food, Inc. is more than a terrific movie — it's an important movie, one that nourishes your knowledge of how the world works ( or, in this case, has started not to work ).

* a Latin phrase ( from Virgil ) meaning the spirit nourishes within and is found at ( Aeneid, VI, 726 ).

The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless `` nut ''!!

Amok was officially classified as a psychiatric condition in 1849 based on the numerous reports and case studies which showed that the majority of individuals who committed amok were, in some sense, mentally ill.

Weissman has also argued that Chaplin's problematic relationship to his mentally ill mother was often reflected on the female characters in his films and the Tramp's desire to save them.

According to one, his gifts became very apparent at the age of three when he corrected, mentally and without fault in his calculations, an error his father had made on paper while calculating finances.

By quickly setting up for the next play ( often within 5 – 10 seconds after the last play despite being afforded 45 seconds ) this hindered the other team's defense from substituting situational players, regrouping for tactics, and, some suggest, increased the defense's rate of fatigue ( This is attributed to the belief that the offense dictates when a play starts so they tend to be more mentally relaxed and prepared for the start of a play where the defense must remain on a higher level of alert before the play starts ).

Schultz ' breakthrough role was the mentally unstable Captain " Howling Mad " Murdock on The A-Team.

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

Financially broken and mentally beaten after years of legal tussles with RCA and others, Armstrong lashed out at his wife one day with a fireplace poker, striking her on the arm.

Mechanisms such as reflection on actual or mental actions vis-à-vis alternative solutions to problems, tagging new concepts or solutions to symbols that help one recall and mentally manipulate them are just a few examples of how mechanisms of cognitive development may be used to facilitate learning.

Roberta had an acting experience as a mentally disturbed teenager in Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

As Montag reflects on his stagnant, stilted marriage to Mildred ( and how Mildred has become emotionally and mentally dead from watching her " parlor wall " entertainment, driving recklessly, and her sleeping pill addiction ), Montag begins to cry after realizing that if Mildred died, he wouldn't miss her at all.

However, courts and various levels of government have indicated that the right is not without limit, and restrictions such as a prohibition of certain persons from owning or handling a gun ( convicted felons, mentally ill persons, persons under a restraining order ), a ban on certain types of ammunition ( armor-piercing, incendiary / tracer, explosive ), registration and restriction of certain types of firearms ( automatic weapons, short-barrelled shotguns, certain types of modifications ), and licensing requirements for possession or for public carry, have often passed judicial scrutiny ( although some of these points remain untested and others are currently under challenge ).

Thus, Annie's strong drive to take revenge on women scholars in general and on Miss de Vine in particular is perfectly comprehensible, and in fact does not in itself prove her to be mentally deranged.

John and his brothers spent many of their younger years living within the grounds of these institutions, which had a great bearing on John's later deep understanding of the needs of the mentally ill. John was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, matriculating in 1928.

Audiation involves hearing sounds mentally, although on a different level than just " hearing a song in your head ".

To form a concept, one mentally isolates a group of concretes ( of distinct perceptual units ), on the basis of observed similarities which distinguish them from all other known concretes ( similarity is ' the relationship between two or more existents which possess the same characteristic ( s ), but in different measure or degree '); then, by a process of omitting the particular measurements of these concretes, one integrates them into a single new mental unit: the concept, which subsumes all concretes of this kind ( a potentially unlimited number ).

Many of his stories, such as Gulf, If This Goes On —, and Stranger in a Strange Land, depend strongly on the premise, related to the well-known Sapir – Whorf hypothesis, that by using a correctly designed language, one can change or improve oneself mentally, or even realize untapped potential ( as in the case of Joe Green in Gulf ).

Addition and subtraction steps in a calculation are generally done mentally or on paper, not on the slide rule.

" His position is that logically we cannot assign animals a lesser value because of a perceived lack of rationality, while at the same time assigning a higher value to human beings who lack rationality, such as infants and the mentally impaired, solely on the grounds of their species membership.

Subsequent to his conviction, Eastman continuously appealed against his conviction, attempting to win a retrial on the basis that he was mentally unfit during his original trial.

* The 1992 film The Lawnmower Man ( which bore little resemblance to the Stephen King story on which it was ostensibly based ) tells the tale of a research scientist who uses a VR system to jumpstart the mental and physical development of his mentally handicapped gardener.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.