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The Entire Effort Of Artificial Intelligence Is Essentially A Fight Against Computers’ Rigidity.

Perhaps The Most Concise Summary Of Enlightenment Would Be: Transcending Dualism . ... Dualism Is The Conceptual Division Of The World Into Categories ... Human Perception Is By Nature A Dualistic Phenomenon - Which Makes The Quest For Enlightenment An Uphill Struggle, To Say The Least.

You Can Imagine A Soul As Being A Detailed, Elaborate Pattern That Exists Very Clearly In One Brain. When A Person Dies, The Original Is No Longer Around. But There Are Other Versions Of It In Other People's Brains. It's A Less Detailed Copy, It's Coarse-grained.

It As If You Took A Lot Of Very Good Food And Some Dog Excrement And Blended It All Up So That You Can't Possibly Figure Out What's Good Or Bad. It's An Intimate Mixture Of Rubbish And Good Ideas, And It's Very Hard To Disentangle The Two, Because These Are Smart People; They're Not Stupid.

It Is Perhaps Wrong To Say That The Enemy Of Enlightenment Is Logic; Rather, It Is Dualistic, Verbal Thinking. In Fact, It Is Even More Basic Than That: It Is Perception.