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.

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.

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.