We Turn To Quantities When We Can't

There Are Three Basic Approaches To Ai: Case-based, Rule-based, And Connectionist Reasoning.

It Would Be As Useless To Perceive How Things 'actually Look' As It Would Be To Watch The Random Dots On Untuned Television Screens.

Each Part Of The Mind Sees Only A Little Of What Happens In Some Others, And That Little Is Swiftly Refined, Reformulated And "represented." We Like To Believe That These Fragments Have Meanings In Themselves - Apart From The Great Webs Of Structure From Which They Emerge - And Indeed This Illusion Is Valuable To Us Qua Thinkers - But Not To Us As Psychologists - Because It Leads Us To Think That Expressible Knowledge Is The First Thing To Study.

I Bet The Human Brain Is A Kludge

To Say That The Universe Exists Is Silly, Because It Says That The Universe Is One Of The Things In The Universe. So There's Something Wrong With Questions Like, "what Caused The Universe To Exist?"