The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompani… - Marvin Minsky

We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.

An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

For generations, scientists and philosophers have tried to explain ordinary reasoning in terms of logical principles — with virtually no success. I suspect this enterprise failed because it was looking in the wrong direction: common sense works so well not because it is an approximation of logic; logic is only a small part of our great accumulation of different, useful ways to chain things together.