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What Is Intelligence, Anyway It Is Only A Word That People Use To Name Those Unknown Processes With Which Our Brains Solve Problems We Call Hard. But Whenever You Learn A Skill Yourself, You're Less Impressed Or Mystified When Other People Do The Same. This Is Why The Meaning Of 'intelligence' Seems So Elusive: It Describes Not Some Definite Thing But Only The Momentary Horizon Of Our Ignorance About How Minds Might Work.

Kubrick's Vision Seemed To Be That Humans Are Doomed, Whereas Clarke's Is That Humans Are Moving On To A Better Stage Of Evolution.

One Can Acquire Certainty Only By Amputating Inquiry.

Minds Are Simply What Brains Do.

But The Big Feature Of Human-level Intelligence Is Not What It Does When It Is Works But What It Does When It's Stuck.