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.

It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.

By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

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

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?"

Minds are simply what brains do.