It Would Be As Useless To Perceive

No Computer Has Ever Been Designed That Is Ever Aware Of What It's Doing; But Most Of The Time, We Aren't Either.

We'll Show You That You Can Build A Mind From Many Little Parts, Each Mindless By Itself.

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.

A Couple Of Hundred Years From Now, Maybe [science Fiction Writers] Isaac Asimov And Fred Pohl Will Be Considered The Important Philosophers Of The Twentieth Century, And The Professional Philosophers Will Almost All Be Forgotten, Because They're Just Shallow And Wrong, And Their Ideas Aren't Very Powerful.

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 Any Single, Perfect Principle.