In Science, One Learns The Most By

Each Practitioner Thinks There's One Magic Way To Get A Machine To Be Smart, And So They're All Wasting Their Time In A Sense. On The Other Hand, Each Of Them Is Improving Some Particular Method, So Maybe Someday In The Near Future, Or Maybe It's Two Generations Away, Someone Else Will Come Around And Say, "let's Put All These Together," And Then It Will Be Smart.

I Believed In Realism, As Summarized By John Mccarthy's Comment To The Effect That If We Worked Really Hard, We'd Have An Intelligent System In From Four To Four Hundred Years.

We Turn To Quantities When We Can't Compare The Qualities Of Things.

Daniel Dennett Is Our Best Current Philosopher. He Is The Next Bertrand Russell. Unlike Traditional Philosophers, Dan Is A Student Of Neuroscience, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, And Psychology. He's Redefining And Reforming The Role Of The Philosopher.

A Couple Of Hundred Years From Now, Maybe [science Fiction Writers] Isaac Asimov And Fred Pohl Will Be Considered The Important Philosophers Of The Twentieth Century, And The Professional Philosophers Will Almost All Be Forgotten, Because They're Just Shallow And Wrong, And Their Ideas Aren't Very Powerful.