Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle. - Marvin Minsky

We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.

For avoiding nonsense in general, we might accumulate millions of censors. For all we know, this "negative meta-knowledge" — about patterns of thought and inference that have been found defective or harmful — may be a large portion of all we know.

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