The mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
心智是一套信息处理机器,它们由自然选择设计来解决我们狩猎采集祖先面临的适应性问题。
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
最好的数学是简单的,但又不至于过于简单。
生命从来不曾离开过孤独而独立存在。无论是我们出生、我们成长、我们相爱还是我们成功和失败,直到最后的最后,孤独犹如影子一样存在于生命一隅。
The concept of a Turing machine is foundational to our understanding of computation.
计算机非常快、准确且愚蠢。人类非常慢、不准确且聪明。两者的结合是一种无法计算的力量。