The basic algorithms of human thought, Ray Kurzweil says, just aren’t so complicated.
From an observation about the weather to a sophisticated joke, cognition at every level operates according to a few simple principles. Researchers have gotten lost, he says, in the diversity and complexity of individual neurons and are missing the bigger picture.
Many areas of the world are really still have a model of education of rote learning, which is obsolete because we carry all that information on our belts. We don’t need to remember it all.
But we do need to be able to solve actual problems with knowledge. We need to find the right knowledge. We have search engines to help us and the search engines will get better, but really need the right strategies to find the right information. We need to be able to create new knowledge.
