Computation as the Ultimate Metaphor

Rodney Brook, an AI professor at MIT and author of Flesh and Machine, wrote this response "Computation as the Ultimate Metaphor" to a question posed by the Edge Foundation, "What have you changed your mind about during the 2007?" The Edge Foundation is a site that I have long subscribed

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Human-like Reasoning

My goal in my static analysis work is not to solve general problems like the Four Color Theorem, but rather to simulate closely the human reasoning process to solve problems that are generated, comprehendible, and solvable by normal people. Practical and deep, rather than complete. Humans write programs to be

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