One Can Acquire Certainty Only By Amputating

In General, We’re Least Aware Of What Our Minds Do Best.

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!

There Are Three Basic Approaches To Ai: Case-based, Rule-based, And Connectionist Reasoning.

We Rarely Recognize How Wonderful It Is That A Person Can Traverse An Entire Lifetime Without Making A Single Really Serious Mistake — Like Putting A Fork In One's Eye Or Using A Window Instead Of A Door.

The Brain Happens To Be A Meat Machine.