Gary Marcus Quotes
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It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.
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“Because genes work in combination, the incremental effect of adding a new gene to a genome may be not linear, but exponential.”
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Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.
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There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.
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“It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.”
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What if you take a human mind, and upload it into one of these machines?
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“The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational.”
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This is the universal property of the human mind. Abstract rules form the core of everything from computer programs to grammars. Our results show that babies' minds are built to look for such rules - even without being told.
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Language builds on our cognitive capacities to reason about the goals and intentions of other people, on our desire to imitate, our desire to communicate, and our twin capacities for using convention to name things and sequence to indicate differences between differing possibilities.
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“One key lesson learned from mapping the genome is that access to a rough initial map proved crucial to developing more detailed maps of small individual human differences.”