第254页 The architecture of the human mind

"Why, Dan," ask the people in AI, "do you waste your time conferring with those neuroscientist? They wave their hands about 'information processing' and worry about where it happens, and which neurotransmitter are involved, and all those boring facts, but they haven't a clue about the computational requirments of higher cognitive functions." "Why," ask the neuroscientist, "do you waste your time on the fantasies of AI? They just invent whatever machinery they want, and say unpardonably ignorant things about the brain." The cognitive psychologists, meanwhil, are accused of concocting models with neither biological plasusibility nor proven computational powers; the anthropologists wouldn't know a model if they saw one, and the philosophers, as we all know, just take in each other's laundry, warning about confusions they themselves have created, in an arena bereft of both and empiribally testable theories. With so many idiots working on the problem, no wonder consciousness is still a mystery.