An Ethicist Is Somebody Who Sees Something

There Was A Failure To Recognize The Deep Problems In Ai; For Instance, Those Captured In Blocks World. The People Building Physical Robots Learned Nothing.

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.

Good Theories Of The Mind Must Span At Least Three Different Scales Of Time: Slow, For The Billions Of Years In Which Our Brains Have Survivied; Fast, For The Fleeting Weeks And Months Of Childhood; And In Between, The Centuries Of Growth Of Our Ideas Through History.

Our Present Culture May Be Largely Shaped By This Strange Idea Of Isolating Children's Thought From Adult Thought. Perhaps The Way Our Culture Educates Its Children Better Explains Why Most Of Us Come Out As Dumb As They Do, Than It Explains How Some Of Us Come Out As Smart As They Do.