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When David Marr At Mit Moved Into Computer Vision, He Generated A Lot Of Excitement, But He Hit Up Against The Problem Of Knowledge Representation; He Had No Good Representations For Knowledge In His Vision Systems.

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.

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.

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.

Theorems Often Tell Us Complex Truths About The Simple Things, But Only Rarely Tell Us Simple Truths About The Complex Ones. To Believe Otherwise Is Wishful Thinking Or "mathematics Envy."