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Hubert Dreyfus

15 October 1929-22 April 2017

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Artificial intelligence is a flawed idea because human problem solving and expertise depend on our background sense of the context, of what is important and interesting given the situation, rather than on the process of searching through combinations of possibilities to find what we need.

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Artificial intelligence is wrong about epistemology because the mind cannot be viewed as a device operating on bits of information according to formal rules.

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Artificial intelligence is wrong about human biology because intelligence is not in fact based on a brain that processes information in discrete operations by way of some biological equivalent of on/off switches.

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A Definition is the making manifest of what we are already familiar with. A definition does not aim to make something so explicit that a martian or computer could come to know it.

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Embodiment is our physical selves with the ability to move about, our physical location in the world, our physical and emotional interactions with others.

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Epistemology is defined against traditional epistemology with its subject/object relation, along with heidegger who makes the ontological observation that our transparent everyday way of coping with the available can be carried on independently of the emergence of a thematically conscious subject.

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Familiarity is concerned not with a vast body of rules and facts, but rather consist of dispositions to respond to situations in appropriate ways. There is no body of commonsense knowledge to formalize.

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Flow is the phenomenon, in sports for example, where one has no experience of oneself as a subject.

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Intention is, in skilled activity such as chess, not necessary to the game as long as everything is going smoothly... one simply responds to the solcitations of the situation.