Everything Is Similar If You're Willing To

It Would Be As Useless To Perceive How Things 'actually Look' As It Would Be To Watch The Random Dots On Untuned Television Screens.

The Secret Of What Anything Means To Us Depends On How We've Connected It To All The Other Things We Know. That's Why It's Almost Always Wrong To Seek The "real Meaning" Of Anything. A Thing With Just One Meaning Has Scarcely Any Meaning At All.

There Was A Failure To Recognize The Deep Problems In Ai; For Instance, Those Captured In Blocks World. The People Building Physical Robots Learned Nothing.

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.

Logic Doesn't Apply To The Real World. D. R. Hofstadter And D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.