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Dr. Minsky is convinced that there is nothing special about intelligence or creativity. He thinks that as machines are built to perform more complicated mental processes they will gradually acquire more of the "creative" abilities of the human brain. When the first intelligent machines are constructed, suggested Minsky (perhaps joking...
Ford advised the Congregational-Presbyterian group to avoid a campaign for renewal of University reaffirmation of a "Protestant-Puritan" tradition and to omit "explicit, self-conscious missionary activity." College religious groups can make their greatest contribution by assisting the individual to acquire "a sense of integrity and consistency" during a...
In the first frame the word to be learned appears along with a definition and an example. When he copies it correctly, the second frame appears. Now he has to be selective in his copying; He must see the common root of "fact" in "manufacture" and "factory." This helps him...
Following Bumba's lead, the authorities began to exhume some bodies. Nine of them (eight men and a woman) were found to have been partly dismembered, apparently to make ritual meals for cannibals. Ten suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate...
Henry Adams had the arrogance of his ignorance. To William James he railed at the failure of man to acquire "a single vital fact worth knowing." He was obsessed with the American fallacy that life was some kind of inside story that an enterprising philosopher-reporter could crack wide open...