“Gradually Man turned more and more problems of his own society, his own maintenance, and his own survival over to these machines. As the machines became increasingly competent to do the programming, they took over from Man.”

The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography (1978) · Dec 31 · John C. Lilly's 1978 vision of solid-state intelligence surpassing humanity

“Man gave them access to the processes of creating themselves, of extending themselves. Man gave them automatic control of the mining of those elements necessary for the creation of their parts.”

The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography (1978) · Dec 31 · John C. Lilly's 1978 vision of solid-state intelligence surpassing humanity

“These machines could think, reason, and self-program and learned to self-metaprogram themselves.”

The Scientist: A Metaphysical Autobiography (1978) · Dec 31 · John C. Lilly's 1978 vision of solid-state intelligence surpassing humanity