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I was forced against my will (child labor) to mow my parents’ lawns, and while I was pushing the mower around in circles (some people go back and forth, some go diagonally—I’m a spiral mower myself) I got to thinking about my Artificial Intelligence class at Berkeley and how I was basically ridiculed for saying that Intelligence is complex!

I guess it sounds like an ignorant viewpoint for a computer scientist to have. Intelligence is complex—or should it be just a very powerful computer with the right program? It seems to me like most people in the strong AI group think this way; that it’s just a lot of complicated parts needing independent solutions and some putting-together. This view is almost required to believe it can be done in the first place! I do believe it can be done—in fact, I believe the only way it can be done is the way it already has. We need to simulate the evolution of a strong AI and all its sources—essentially, us. I believe the evolutionary processes of an intelliegence—artificial or not—are as important as the end result.