How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

by Ray Kurzweil

If understanding language and other phenomena through statistical analysis does not count as true understanding, then humans have no understanding either.

While I probably should have mentioned that you shouldn’t try this in a real moving car (but then I assume you have already mastered the rule that you shouldn’t drive with your eyes closed), that’s not really the key problem here.

Ever since we picked up a stick to reach a higher branch, we have used our tools to extend our reach, both physically and mentally.