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Quotes from Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology — Valentino Braitenberg

d. 2011 Italy

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A psychological consequence of this is the following: when we analyze a mechanism we tend to over estimate its complexity.

Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984)

You may regret this, but you will soon notice that is a good idea to give chance a chance in the further creation of new brands of vehicles. This will make available a source of intelligence that is much more powerful than any engineering mind.

Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984)

This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science fiction in the service of science. Or just science, if you agree that fiction is a part of it, always was, and always will be as long as our brains are only miniscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Valentino Braitenberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.