Here, it’s best to be clear: equating a mind with a computer is not scientific, it’s philosophical. - Erik J. Larson

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Here, it’s best to be clear: equating a mind with a computer is not scientific, it’s philosophical.

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About Erik J. Larson

Erik J. Larson (born 1971) is an American writer, tech entrepreneur, and computer scientist. He is author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do. He has written for The Atlantic, The Hedgehog Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Wired, and professional journals. His other projects include two DARPA-funded startups, the most recent a company that provides influence rankings for colleges and universities using an influence ranking algorithm. Larson also publishes articles in his online newsletter Colligo.

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