Much of the time not knowing is of greater advantage than knowing.

“A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.“— Alan Turing, mathematician and computer scientist

I sometimes think of therapy as a programming problem…

Taken literally, “to program” creates a series of steps that always choose between right and wrong. Programming requires such steps to exist, that you can discern them, choose between them, and follow them to the end of the path. None of these requirements are met in the minds of real people…

The systems beyond our control and the questions we don’t understand are the most important ones…

Today’s important answers apply to questions we don’t know how to ask.

The Turing Test

Deterministic Versus Nondeterministic Tests

A Better Turing Test

Our Most Important Questions are Unanswerable

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