Computers are only prostheses; they no more do calculations than clocks tell the time. Clocks help us to tell the time, butthey don’t do it by themselves

Carlo Ierna writes about …
In this blog you will find also some fictional dialogues made between different virtual characters. We thought of doing this to stimulate the reader to identify with the questions or curiosity of the different characters. In fact, each character has their own personality and will interact with others in a different way. If you want to view all the virutal characters and you want more information about please visit the virtual characters page.
Computers are only prostheses; they no more do calculations than clocks tell the time. Clocks help us to tell the time, butthey don’t do it by themselves
Even the simplest brains are awesome computational instruments, they do computations we do not know how to do, in ways we do not understand…
Sensations are received by a certain definite number of sensor nerves, which constitute the only means we possess of obtaining a knowledge of the external world …
With the determination of the net, the unknowable object of knowledge, the “thing in itself,” ceases to be unknowable …
To what extent a digital computer can be programmed to exhibit the sort of simple intelligent behavior characteristic of children and sometimes animals…
How do some humans try to solve some simple formal problems? This article is concerned with the psychology of human thinking …
Logical laws are identical with natural laws of thought. Logic is … a physics of thought, otherwise it is nothing
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them …
Cognition is nothing but computation …
The word “Artificial” is used in one sense when it is applied, to flowers, and in another sense when it is applied to light …
You who calculate?… Why not use Brains of Steel which never tire?
Every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be described that a machine can be made to simulate it …
Artificial intelligence belongs in the history of human intelligence