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The Nature Of Mind: Much Of Its Power Seems To Stem From Just The Messy Ways Its Agents Cross-connect. ...it's Only What We Must Expect From Evolution's Countless Tricks.

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.

Minds Are Simply What Brains Do.

One Can Acquire Certainty Only By Amputating Inquiry.

Common Sense Is Not A Simple Thing. Instead, It Is An Immense Society Of Hard-earned Practical Ideas - Of Multitudes Of Life-learned Rules And Exceptions, Dispositions And Tendencies, Balances And Checks.