The Brain Happens To Be A Meat

It Makes No Sense To Seek A Single Best Way To Represent Knowledge-because Each Particular Form Of Expression Also Brings Its Particular Limitations. For Example, Logic-based Systems Are Very Precise, But They Make It Hard To Do Reasoning With Analogies. Similarly, Statistical Systems Are Useful For Making Predictions, But Do Not Serve Well To Represent The Reasons Why Those Predictions Are Sometimes Correct.

Anyone Could Learn Lisp In One Day, Except That If They Already Knew Fortran, It Would Take Three Days.

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.

Eventually, Robots Will Make Everything.

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.