Malcolm  wrote or quoted:

> We don't know how society will choose to allocate funding. At the moment the
> problem in Britain is that funding bodies are putting ever tighter
> restrictions on how money is spent, which in the short term means that you
> do cost-effective science, but in the long term will probably kill the big
> breakthroughs. Very few people are working on consciousness compared to
> cancer, for instance, but if we solved the problem of consciousness that
> might solve every disease, including cancer.

My impression is that there are quite a few people trying to make
smart machines.

Possibly in the long term, their research might find medical applications.
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