Minds Are Simply What Brains Do.

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.

But The Big Feature Of Human-level Intelligence Is Not What It Does When It Is Works But What It Does When It's Stuck.

Daniel Dennett Is Our Best Current Philosopher. He Is The Next Bertrand Russell. Unlike Traditional Philosophers, Dan Is A Student Of Neuroscience, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, And Psychology. He's Redefining And Reforming The Role Of The Philosopher.

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

The Brain Happens To Be A Meat Machine.