Theorems Often Tell Us Complex Truths About

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!

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.

I Believed In Realism, As Summarized By John Mccarthy's Comment To The Effect That If We Worked Really Hard, We'd Have An Intelligent System In From Four To Four Hundred Years.

The Nature Of Mind: Much Of Its Power Seems To Stem From Just The Messy Ways Its Agents Cross-connect. ...it's Only What We Must Expect From Evolution's Countless Tricks.

We Must See That Music Theory Is Not Only About Music, But About How People Process It. To Understand Any Art, We Must Look Below Its Surface Into The Psychological Details Of Its Creation And Absorption.