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- A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying ï¬rst a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible.…
- What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from…
- If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends…
- I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in…
- We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
- The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect…
- Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We…
- Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o'clock position…
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