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We Physicists Don't Like To Admit It, But Some Of Us Are Closet Science Fiction Fans. We Hate To Admit It Because It Sounds Undignified. But When We Were Children, That's When We Got Interested In Science, For A Lot Of Us.

In The Future We'll Be Able To Mentally Contact Anybody We Want, See Whatever Image We Want. And When We Don't Like It, We'll Just Turn It Off.

Language And Emotions Are Too Easily Misread. For Example, Laughing Can Mean Many Things: Laughing With You Or At You. Does That Laugh Reflect Joy, Anger, Or That S/he's About To Fire You? Too Many Jobs Require Complex Feelings, Pattern Recognition, Common Sense, And The Human Touch.

A Related Aspect Of Intelligent Consciousness Is Delay Of Gratification: The Wisdom To Accurately Predict Whether Delay Rather Than Acting On Impulse Will Yield Greater Benefit.

I Am A Figure Skater, Which Helps Me Appreciate Newton's Theory Of Mechanics.