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.

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.

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.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?

General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.

Minds are simply what brains do.