Fair Warning — Real Life

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.”

n Computer Power and Human Reason, Weizenbaum insists that “humans and computers are not species of the same genus,” since humans “face problems no machine could possibly be made to face.