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Somebody said "Do you think machines will have emotions someday?"

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No, they won't because that serves no purpose.

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I'm going to tell you what I mean by that.

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If a woman's in an automobile accident,

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with her kids in the back of the car, the car turns over,

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and the gasoline starts flowing toward the engine,

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which is hot, it'll explode.

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If she says "Oh my God, my kids are trapped in the car,

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and it's caught on fire; it's breaking out.

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I hope that somebody comes to help."

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If she picks up wood, smashes the window, takes the kids out,

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that's emotions converted to action.

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We're not too interested in emotion;

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we're interested in what you do with it.

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Are we educated yet?

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I think I can say this:

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Most people really don't know how to raise children.

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I wanted to communicate with my little boy

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when he was just a few months old.

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That's a time when you can't communicate with a language.

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But he was in a crib, and I put a ball painted yellow

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at one end of the crib, a real ball.

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And the kid saw it. It was stuck out, and he grabbed it.

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When he grabbed it, lights went on in a circle above the crib,

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so he let go. He was so amused by it that he let go

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and started [Jacque makes crying sounds] 'cause it stopped.

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He didn't know why it stopped. But after he grabbed the ball six times,

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he knew that ball made the lights go on.

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Once that was established,

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I put a different color ball at the other end of the crib

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and he crawled over, before he could speak,

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and grabbed that ball right away

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but no lights went on, on the ceiling. He looked up,

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but on the wall lights went up and down this way. See?

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So, he knew that that controlled the ceiling lights;

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this one controlled the wall lights.

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By the time he was three to four months old, he had six panels of lights.

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When he wet his pants, he'd squeeze one,

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mom would come in and change his diapers.

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So, in other words,

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children really want to know how the world works.

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Kids want to know everything,

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and we give them 'Jack and the Bean Stalk' and the Mickey Mouse Club.

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Kids are really ready to learn how the body works.

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They want to know how the heart pumps blood through...

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Parents don't know those things.

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So, when you say "Should we educate our own children?"

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You can't, unless you're educated yourself.

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“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”  - Victor Hugo

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You know, a priest said to me

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"I don't believe you. I know two people in the same home.

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One became a priest, the other a gangster.

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If environment is everything, how do you get those differences?"

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And I said "The minute you treat one kid different than the other,

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you get the differences."

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“I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the schoolboys that educate my son.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You give kids Cinderella, artificiality,

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and you tell them to be honest. You always tell children to be honest.

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When they say "Where do babies come from?"

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"The stork brings a baby." That's a lie.

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Then the kids say "Daddy, does Santa Claus climb down every chimney?"

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You say "Yes." That's a lie.

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And so we lie to kids, and then we tell them to be honest.

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You know, we lie about everything, almost everything.

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That's the kind of world we live in.

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It's so full of shit!

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And that's no bad language. It's just that way!

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So, if you really want a better world,

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you have to know what makes criminals, what makes artists,

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what makes great painters.

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Environment makes a gangster or a priest.

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“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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I went to a group of psychologists and said

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"Do you believe there is such a thing as human nature?"

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They said "Yes, one is jealousy."

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I said "Give me an idea of what you mean by jealousy."

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I always do that to try and understand the other person.

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He said "When I reach for my cat and put it on my lap, my dog growls.

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That's what I mean by jealousy."

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“Learn, compare, collect the facts.” - Ivan Petrowitsch Pawlow

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So I said "I'm going to show you some experiments that I've done."

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I had a dog and a cat. I always had a lot of dogs and cats

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and raccoons and other animals, and I'm interested in their behavior.

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“I have found the missing link between ape and civilized man:

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it is we.” - Konrad Lorenz

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I gave the dog fresh liver - a little bit - and then picked up the cat.

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I did that 20 times, and when I reached for the cat,

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the dog's tail would wag.

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So, if it were inborn, he would still growl. You know what I mean?

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If it was conditioning, he wouldn't wag his tail when I picked up the cat.

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"Incubator-hatched geese

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imprint on the first suitable moving stimulus they see

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within a 'critical period' between 13-16 hours after hatching."

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- Konrad Lorenz, “Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins”

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“To gain a desired prey, a dog or wolf will do things

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that, in other contexts, they would shy away from:

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run through thorn bushes, jump into cold water and expose themselves

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to risks which would normally frighten them.

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All these inhibitory mechanisms act as a counterweight

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to the effects of learning mechanisms.

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The organism cannot allow itself to pay a price which is not worth paying.”

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“A closer examination shows that these beings not only do not damage each other,

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but often constitute a community of interests.

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It is obvious that the predator is strongly interested

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in the survival of that species, animal or vegetable,

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which constitutes its prey.

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It is not uncommon that the prey species derives specific benefits

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from its interaction with the predator species.”

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“The pace of human ecology is determined by the progress of man’s technology.

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It is governed by mechanisms of positive feedback,

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defined as a mechanism which tends to encourage behavior

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rather than to attenuate it.

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One particular kind of positive feedback occurs

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when individuals of the same species enter into competition among themselves...

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For many animal species, environmental factors

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keep intraspecies selection from leading to disaster.

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But there is no such force

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which exercises this type of healthy regulatory effect

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on humanity’s cultural development; all the advantages that man has gained

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from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him,

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his technological, chemical and medical progress,

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all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering...

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tends instead to favor humanity’s destruction.”

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Yet...

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“A completely new ecology (Economy)

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which corresponds in every way to humanity’s desires...

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could, theoretically, prove as durable as that ecology

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which would have existed without his intervention.”

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(Carl Sagan) We were wanderers from the beginning.

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When the fruits or nuts were ripe, we were there.

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We followed the herds in their annual migrations.

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We rejoiced in fresh meat. A few of us cooperating

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accomplished what many of us each hunting alone could not.

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Making it on our own was as ludicrous to imagine as was settling down.

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Working together, we protected our children from the lions and the hyenas.

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We taught them the skills they would need and the tools.

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Then, as now, technology was the key to our survival.

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It might be a familiar progression, transpiring on many worlds.

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A planet newly-formed placidly revolves around its star.

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Life slowly forms.

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A kaleidoscopic procession of creatures evolves.

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Intelligence emerges, which at least up to a point,

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confers enormous survival value. And then technology is invented.

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It dawns on them that there are such things as laws of nature,

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and these laws can be revealed by experiment

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and that knowledge of these laws can be made both to save

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and to take lives, both on unprecedented scales.

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Science, they recognize, grants immense powers.

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In a flash they create world-altering contrivances.

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Some planetary civilizations see their way through,

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place limits on what may and what must not be done

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and safely pass through the time of the perils.

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Others, not so lucky or so prudent, perish.