Confronting Impossible Futures
Although we process information, we do not do it the way that computers do.” Even to ask the question, he argues, of “whether a computer has captured the essence of human reason is a diversion, if not a trap, because the real question — do humans understand the essence of humans? — cannot be answered or resolved by technology.”
Abeba Birhane • Fair Warning — Real Life
Mathematical intuition is so banal, simple, and stupid, that you need a lot of self-confidence not to throw it in the trash. When you’re no longer a child, you have only one wish, and that’s to reduce your false intuitions to silence. That’s what almost happened to me when I thought I had to get rid of my stupid ideas and parasitical thoughts.