There is no spoon

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
Neo: There is no spoon?
Spoon boy: Then you'll see... that it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself.

--The Matrix, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Matrix

This recently resurfaced in my mind. I was trying to solve a problem - what am I supposed to do for a career? - when I realized that the problem I was trying to solve didn't exist.

Reading this dialogue also brought back thoughts about the importance of changing yourself.
"...it is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself."

AI thoughts

What if AI really should be Artificial Biology, and you have to let artificial beings develop over time to achieve the consciousness that we have? What if there is a law that says time for growth is a required ingredient for AI?

What if every human being had an artificial being grown alongside the human being at birth and throughout life so the human being carried a handy algorithm he could use to answer arbitrary/opinionated questions, like which photos in a huge album he liked the most? That would be so cool.