The robots have already taken over

Quoting: phys.org, an article header---

Artificial intelligence: Hawking's fears stir debate
There was the psychotic HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey," the humanoids which attacked their human masters in "I, Robot" and, of course, "The Terminator", where a robot is sent into the past to kill a woman whose son will end the tyranny of the machines.

I guess everyone has read the conversation. Stephen Hawking thinks that there is a chance robots will be a threat to the human race. His assertions are a great example of the limitations of ordinary, binary thought--- that rational part of the mind, where everything is this or that, as a principle of processing talk. Jan Cox used to laugh and say scientists could only count to two, and this is what he meant. No amount of binary programming can topple humanity. What Hawking misses is the whole dimension of human creativity, the unprogrammable side which feeds, inflects, and furnishes human reality. Hawking has no place for this because it is not rational -- the unknown is not either/or, But this other dimension is a constant aspect, not just an incidental accidental occasional thing people trip on. Jan called it various things. C Flow is one label. It is a constant aspect of our world. It is not the only causal feature, but it is critical and makes calculating the future a different chore than the spokespeople for rational man realize.