“It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress along that road has been made since the turn of the twentieth century, and a large fraction of it since the midpoint of the century. Thought was still wholly intangible and ineffable until modern formal logic interpreted it as the manipulation of formal tokens. And it seemed still to inhabit mainly the heaven of Platonic ideals, or the equally obscure spaces of the human mind, until computers taught us how symbols could be processed by machines.” MindHumansLongHas BeensMadeStillsTurnsHeavenSpaceProgressModernCenturyTaughtComputerIdealsLogicMachinesSymbolsManipulationHuman MindFormalObscurePlatoTwentieth CenturyFractionsTaught UsTokensIntangibleIneffablePlatonicLong RoadPlato S Author:Allen Newell
“The insight at the root of artificial intelligence was that these "bits" (manipulated by computers) could just as well stand as symbols for concepts that the machine would combine by the strict rules of logic or the looser associations of psychology.” WellsBitsPsychologyComputerConceptsRootsLogicMachinesInsightSymbolsArtificial IntelligenceAssociationArtificialStrictStrict Rules Author:Daniel Crevier
“One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.” HomeUnderstandingRevolutionComputerLogicBest ThingsRebellious Book:Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers Source: Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers
“Simple molecules combine to make powerful chemicals. Simple cells combine to make powerful life-forms. Simple electronics combine to make powerful computers. Logically, all things are created by a combination of simpler, less capable components. Therefore, a supreme being must be in our future, not our origin. What if "God" is the consciousness that will be created when enough of us are connected by the Internet?!!” IfsEnoughGodFormScienceSimplePowerfulConsciousnessPowerInternetFutureComputerCapableAll ThingsLogicSimplicityConnectedSupremeCellsCombinationWhat IfOur FutureChemicalsComponentsMoleculesElectronicsSupreme BeingPowerful Life Author:Scott Adams
“The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.” HumansHeartUseBlackWhiteBrainInformationComputerLogicDefinedChemicalsBlack And WhiteHuman BrainFuzzyBinary Author:Naveen Jain
“Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It will be able to talk to you. It will be able to translate from one language to another instantaneously. You will be able to give it instructions. You will be able to tell it stories. If it doesn't understand something, it will ask you.” IfsGivingCharacterStoriesSeemsAbleAsksLanguageProducePersonalityComputerLogicInstructionTranslateFuzzy Author:Owsley Stanley
“I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.” PerfectComputerApproachLogicMathArchitectureCombinationProgrammingComputer ProgrammingPerfect Combination Author:Maya Lin