问题
"The emotions are like a computer's output devices - they motivate action to solve specific adaptive problems."
"The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors."
The best stories are those that leave us with more questions than answers.
A novel is not written to give answers but to ask the right questions.
The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.
Problem-solving often requires restructuring one's mental representation of the situation.
Problem solving is the central activity of intelligent systems.
Problem solving is a search through a space of possible solutions.
The capacity of the human mind for formulating and solving complex problems is very small compared with the size of the problems whose solution is required for objectively rational behavior in the real world.
Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.