In General, We’re Least Aware Of What

Each Practitioner Thinks There's One Magic Way To Get A Machine To Be Smart, And So They're All Wasting Their Time In A Sense. On The Other Hand, Each Of Them Is Improving Some Particular Method, So Maybe Someday In The Near Future, Or Maybe It's Two Generations Away, Someone Else Will Come Around And Say, "let's Put All These Together," And Then It Will Be Smart.

One Can Acquire Certainty Only By Amputating Inquiry.

Everything, Including That Which Happens In Our Brains, Depends On These And Only On These: A Set Of Fixed, Deterministic Laws.

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 On How We've Connected It To All Other Things We Know. Well-connected Representations Let You Turn Ideas Around In Your Mind, To Envision Things From Many Perspectives Until You Find One That Works For You. And That's What We Mean By Thinking!

Logic Doesn't Apply To The Real World.