Sublime

Richard Byrne has shown how they achieve this by a process that he calls behaviour parsing (which is analogous to the grammatical analysis or ‘parsing’ of human speech or computer programs).

A fine example of the non-transfer of skill exists in chess playing. It’s one of the most studied skills by psychologists, because its need for sequencing ideas, using memory, and developing projection in thinking ought to fire up the neurons like nothing else: top chess players should be top-notch problem solvers, with all the practice they get.

Largely subconscious, mental models operate below the surface. We’re not generally aware of them and yet they’re the reason when we look at a problem we consider some factors relevant and others irrelevant. They are how we infer causality, match patterns, and draw analogies.

Unified Theories of Cognition,

This book explains two important aspects of the AI myth, one scientific and one cultural. The scientific part of the myth assumes that we need only keep “chipping away” at the challenge of general intelligence by making progress on narrow feats of intelligence, like playing games or recognizing images. This is a profound mistake: success on narrow

And they are instantiated as a distributed processing system on human beings. They don’t particularly care about human beings. Their motives are inscrutable, to the extent that they have any, except that they’d like to get bigger. They’ve run on people. They’re implemented on people. But they are not people. They are not persons in any meaningful

By contrast, Chamberlin, with his explicitly developmental perspective, implies that integrative thinking is a skill and discipline that even those of us who aren't geniuses can develop. In Chamberlin's view, the opposable mind is there waiting to be used-and with use, it develops its capacity for creating solutions that would otherwise not be

But even should such a machine be built, it would lack an “operator.” A computer does not have a forebrain, nor does it have an “I.” It cannot pose problems to itself. It has no imagination and cannot set goals for itself. It cannot determine which goals are worthwhile and which are not. It has no emotions. It cannot “feel.” It works only on new