THE HUMAN WAY OF THINKING
I found the following story in the popular new book, In Search of Excellence: Lessons From America’s Best-Run Companies by Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (Harper & Row). The authors attribute it to Gregory Bateson: A man wanted to know about mind, not in nature, but in his private large computer. He asked it, “Do you compute that you will ever think like a human being?” The machine then set to work to analyze its own computational habits. Finally, the machine printed its answer on a piece of paper, as such machines do. The man ran to get the answer and found, neatly typed, the words: “That reminds me of a story.” Surely the computer was right. This is indeed how people think.
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