We do not see that any good can come of experiments which pay no attention to limiting factors that will assert themselves as soon as the small model… - Marvin Minsky

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?

Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves — apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge — and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers — but not to us as psychologists — because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study.