What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Artificial intelligence is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by men.
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.
The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.
Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.
If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.
Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.