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Steven Pinker

“If the system is wired so that it triggers actions that typically reduce the difference between the current state and the goal state, it can be said to pursue goals (and when the world is sufficiently predictable, it will attain them).”

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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