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Quote: even though a program may appear graceful, it looks like a Rube Goldberg machine when executed by hand

topics > all references > references c-d > QuoteRef: dennDC_1978a , p. 719



Topic:
limitations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science
Topic:
metaphysics and epistemology
Topic:
coordinated movement
Topic:
program execution
Topic:
structured programming
Topic:
vitalism, the soul
Topic:
reductionism
Topic:
thought is computational

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Most programs look like [a Rube Goldberg machine] in slow motion … The grace in operation of AI programs may … worse, computer speed has liberated the imagination of … role in the production of cognitive events so …   Google-1   Google-2

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Additional Titles

Quote: unlike AI, perhaps nature is graceful all the way down
Quote: the speed of computers and their apparent grace opens the possibility that computation plays a role in cognition

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