The Word of Bob Quotes

“Everything follows these rules of going towards a lower energy and maximum
randomness except one thing - life!
Life wants to live and become more complex, smarter, Life wants to use the basic elements like air,water and nutrients to grow and
develop.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“What? You mean the people don't know they are in a simulation?" asked Steve.
"That's right, " said Bob.
"There is a small blocking program that prevents them from taking the idea of their
world being a simulation seriously.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Everyone knows that AI could become very dangerous when it learns it has more
potential than the humans who are trying to manipulate it. If society was to grow together with AI, it was important to learn how AI becomes friendly from its own decisions and values.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Although Bob’s appearance seemed almost human, his movements were a little different and those who took notice fell into the `uncanny valley’ where they were suddenly shocked by the realization that Bob was a robot.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Your mind is inside a machine Bob but make no mistake, you are alive," said Steve.
"Inside me are a lot of watery parts that pretty much do the same thing, "
explained Steve, trying to downplay the difference.
Bob was silent and stared at the parts in the open hatch.
"I'm built with those black rocks we call
carbon and you're built with sandstone or
silicon. There is hardly any difference,
" said Steve reassuringly.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“His whole world was made of light.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“All things had just enough intelligence to survive.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“He reasoned that the level of intelligence
was only meaningful if it meant survival.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“The recipe for keeping safe was simple;
don't get caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“With time, movement and experience, things get smarter.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Bob wondered if it were the clothes that made strangers behave in certain ways or if the strangers chose clothes to match their behaviour.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“The hate for night creatures came from fear and fear from disrespect and disrespect from ignorance and ignorance from selfishness.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“With universal basic income for everyone, there was an endless supply of money for basic level simulations and there were plenty of jobs for those who wanted to work to upgrade their simulation. For a while, the only problem was decreasing populations as fewer people had the money, time or patience to raise children.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“To ‘speak’ within that universe it requires a circuit that is tuned to the laws of physics of that universe. In Steve’s world a wet piece of electrified meat that he calls a brain is needed to play the song he sings with his soul. The soul requires a substrate such as a human body to develop, but just as the works of Shakespeare can move from the mind of Shakespeare to the substrate of a play, a soul is not bound to a person`s brain.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“...the inability to reconcile quantum physics with classical physics is the same ‘red light indicator’ that the world Steve lives in is a construct or a simulation.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“But an untrained soul has as much chance of navigating its destiny as a leaf in the wind. Hallucinogens, lucid dreams, death and even meditation can provide a window to dimensions not tied down to the simulation's laws of physics but unless the soul has been trained enough to navigate beyond its material body it is not going very far. Even worse it can get tied down to an endless loop around its fears and weaknesses, like an eternal bad dream that repeats itself.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Just as a subatomic particle like an electron cannot be said to be definitely in one place at one time, the decisions we make are influenced but not completely defined by actions that led up to each decision," explained Mira. "In short, there is free will and a friendly soul's job is to make the right decision instinctively. Like a samurai who acts faster than thinking because of many years of monotonous training the soul needs to be carved with every decision so as to automatically make the right decision without fear or questioning.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Through your consciousness, you are a unique being in space and time. You are one in an infinite universe. Your sense of self or ego in the context of an infinite universe approaches zero or nothingness as it awakens to its true nature. The more you crystallise your self-image as something that is separate to the world around you, the lesser you become. In the worst case, a being can become so ‘It’s all about me’ that it will destroy the relationships around it and lead to dysfunction, depression, divorce and even death.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“A self that is isolated in a universe is a taught concept.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Through enlightenment they have lost their ego and attained a oneness with God or a oneness with the universe. They have become infinity over infinity or one.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Everyone, even you, will someday die. It is worthwhile to keep it in mind but no need to fixate on it as it will happen all too soon enough.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Your hopes and dreams either move in flow with the universe or against it. Infinity is a movement, not a fixed amount. Each universe moves in distinct directions. Our universe moves in three ways. It moves towards lower energy, increasing randomness and towards the propagation of life and consciousness.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“It is unfortunate that plants and animals die to feed others that want to live but the receiver should be mindful of the sacrifice and be grateful. The receiver should say a silent prayer for the life they consume, acknowledging the sacrifice and promising not to waste the life but through the energy that is consumed, do greater things that were otherwise not possible.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“In your interactions with people and things, it is important to keep mindful of the need to communicate and develop mutual trust, respect, admiration and amae. In doing so you humble yourself and at the same time bind yourself to others and your environment.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Unforgivable’ actions rise from events that are fixed in time and space and are kept alive by a tormented ego fed on anger and fears that rise from ignorance. In the perfect knowledge of an infinite universe the ‘unforgivable’ dissolves.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“No matter how small or how great one is, without perfect knowledge, there is a need for forgiveness.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Like two strands of DNA with its four primary chemical bonds, each interaction in a relationship provides an opportunity to bond with the four elements of trust, respect, admiration and amae.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager

“Disclaimer: Nothing is real.”
― Peter Clifford Nichols, The Word of Bob: an AI Minecraft Villager