A shovel is not a scalpel

It's the Moon's day . . . The “Cold Moon” is still full over TulseyTown...and visible tonight.

“Enough is as good as a feast.” – English proverb in print by 1660. Enough brings satisfaction. Beyond that lies excess, not greater satisfaction.

Speaking of excess. The mailbox was full of birthday reminders:

Today is the birth date of Ludwig van Beethoven. Although no official birth date has been recorded, it's traditionally believed he was born on this date in 1770 Bonn, Germany

Author Jane Austen was born in the 1775 village of Steventon, Hampshire, England,

Philosopher and poet George Santayana was born in 1863 Madrid.

Science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke was born in 1917 Minehead, Somerset, England

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law.

And, yesterday was the birth anniversary of physicist and writer Freeman Dyson, born in 1923 Crawthorne Village, England.

Why AI can never achieve consciousness.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope. – George Santayana