General Fiction Is Pretty Much

Everything, Including That Which Happens In Our Brains, Depends On These And Only On These: A Set Of Fixed, Deterministic Laws.

Everything Is Similar If You're Willing To Look Far Out Of Focus.

But The Big Feature Of Human-level Intelligence Is Not What It Does When It Is Works But What It Does When It's Stuck.

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.

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.