Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!

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

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.

The brain happens to be a meat machine.

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

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.