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ADDITIVE. “These kinds of experiences led Minsky and Papert to become powerful advocates of the view that intelligence was not the product of any simple recipe or algorithm for thinking, but rather resulted from the combined activity of great societies of more specialized cognitive processes.” https://lnkd.in/dkTGTAb View in LinkedIn

WHERE DOES LIFE STOP? A simple living cell is made of organelles and biological molecules. Is the organelle alive? Is a biomolecule alive? Is a ribosome or a nucleus alive? How far down can you divide? View in LinkedIn

A BINARY COMPUTER VIRUS "is a virus that carries one part of a double payload. Two strains of the virus exist, A and B. Both strains are innocuous in isolation but when they meet, the payloads combine to produce a malicious function.” https://books.google.com/books?id=_VLmBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=computer+virus+metabolism&source=bl&ots=VZ5Xit6TPg&sig=2EBk5kG-yFSqUID0C-MnUht1dPc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi51qLC35fLAhUBcj4KHQW-B9AQ6AEIDDAB View in LinkedIn

DUMB UNITS. “This book assumes that any brain, machine, or other thing that has a mind must be composed of smaller things that cannot think at all.” https://lnkd.in/dAkkAGX View in LinkedIn

HYBRID MINDS. “The evolutionary vestiges of animals that still remain inside our brains. We use machinery evolved from fish, amphibia, reptiles, and earlier mammals.” https://lnkd.in/dQzHT87 View in LinkedIn

INSCRUTABLE. “Our minds contain processes that enable us to solve problems we consider difficult. Intelligence is our name for whichever of those processes we don't yet understand.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn

IMPERCEPTIBLE. “Evolution's time rate is so slow that we don't see it as intelligent, even though it finally produces wonderful things we ourselves cannot yet make.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIONISM. “The same applies to words like life and mind. It is foolish to use these words for describing the smallest components of living things because these words were invented to describe how larger assemblies interact.” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn

GREATER THAN THE SUM. “What is Life? One dissects a body but finds no life inside. What is Mind? One dissects a brain but finds no mind therein. Are life and mind so much more than the sum of their parts that it is useless to search for them?” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn