Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 47 of 171

A principle of intellectual integrity

Identify all of the assumptions upon which you base your theoretical commitments, then state these assumptions as clearly as possible, and finally examine these assumptions as critically as possible. For what it’s worth, I am quite ambivalent about this future. I love technology and I love brains, so what could be better than technology + brains merged into one thing!?

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