Sublime

that people—or, if you like, automata, algorithms—can and do act in situations that are not well defined.

The differences between the systems are more than just labels. Automatic processing originates in the evolutionarily older parts of the brain, including the cerebellum, basal ganglia, and amygdala. Our deliberative mind operates out of the prefrontal cortex.

For a computer to make a subtle combinational joke, never mind to assess its tastefulness, would require, first, a data-base with a richness comparable to ours, and, second, methods of link-making (and link-evaluating) comparable in subtlety with ours. 

“But the problem is, these artificial intelligence systems are not actually intelligent. Because they’re missing a key component which is very central to humans, which is this general-purpose behavior, or general-purpose learning system.

The possibility for inventions in her own work lay right in front of her, she saw, ready to be cobbled together, but they also required not just mechanical ability but a mechanical disposition: the ability to see what was necessary and then proceed to build it, switching directions as trial and error required.

As many neuroscientists have affirmed, this evolution has led to the higher mammalian brain being composed of three parts. The oldest is the reptilian part of the brain, which controls all automatic responses that regulate the body. This is the instinctive part. Above that is the old mammalian or limbic brain, governing feeling and emotion. And on

Psychologists today generally accept that individuals possess at least two kinds of intelligence. Fluid intelligence is the ability to reason, see relationships, think abstractly, and hold information in mind while working on a problem; crystallized intelligence is one’s accumulated knowledge of the world and the procedures or mental models one has