It is the author's belief that everything that exists in reality or imagination exists in an actual, physical state. Even imaginary things have a physical form, because they are comprised of thoughts and ideas. The barrier between the states of existence called actuality (including everything that exists in time and space) and reality (including conceptualizations of reality) exists, it because reality is a state that exists as part of human (conscious) experience. Human minds are inhibited by our current inability to completely observe, describe, and thus know ourselves. "...human intelligence has not yet been sufficiently introspective to know itself. When at last we have discovered the physical structures and neurophysiological principles underlying the intelligence shown by natural automata such as the living brain, we shall have also acquired the means of simulating it synthetically." (Singh, Preface vi) "There is thus a close but reciprocal tie-up between the complexity of a system and the language used to specify complexity for communicating it to the processing machine. Language and communication on the one hand and complexity of artificially intelligent systems on the other are, therefore, closely related. Advances in one, say, the power of language, enable the specification of more complex systems; whereas the construction of more complex systems that such specification allows leads to the invention of more powerful languages or machine codes."(Singh 5)
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