General Fiction Is Pretty Much About Ways

Speed Is What Distinguishes Intelligence. No Bird Discovers How To Fly: Evolution Used A Trillion Bird-years To 'discover' That – Where Merely Hundreds Of Person-years Sufficed.

It Makes No Sense To Seek A Single Best Way To Represent Knowledge-because Each Particular Form Of Expression Also Brings Its Particular Limitations. For Example, Logic-based Systems Are Very Precise, But They Make It Hard To Do Reasoning With Analogies. Similarly, Statistical Systems Are Useful For Making Predictions, But Do Not Serve Well To Represent The Reasons Why Those Predictions Are Sometimes Correct.

This Is A Tricky Domain Because, Unlike Simple Arithmetic, To Solve A Calculus Problem - And In Particular To Perform Integration - You Have To Be Smart About Which Integration Technique Should Be Used: Integration By Partial Fractions, Integration By Parts, And So On.

You Don't Understand Anything Unless You Understand There Are At Least 3 Ways.

Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be That Humans Are Doomed, Whereas Clarke's Is That Humans Are Moving On To A Better Stage Of Evolution.