And yet, Lick further reasoned, when it came to things that computers did poorly or not at all—intuitive processes such as perception, goal setting, judgment, insight, and all the rest—our human capabilities surpassed the most powerful machines on the planet (and still do). Having spent much of his career trying to untangle the relatively straightforward mechanisms of hearing, Lick could testify to that point personally: these "heuristic" mental functions, as he called them, actually involved a vast amount of information processing. They seemed effortless and intuitive only because that
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