The Brain Happens To Be A Meat

Logic Doesn't Apply To The Real World. D. R. Hofstadter And D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

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!

All Intelligent Problem Solvers Are Subject To The Same Ultimate Constraints - Limitations On Space, Time, And Materials.

Experience Has Shown That Science Frequently Develops Most Fruitfully Once We Learn To Examine The Things That Seem The Simplest, Instead Of Those That Seem The Most Mysterious.

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.