The theoretical principles developed in the earlier chapters lead us to the conclusion that one cannot program computers to be intelligent and that we need to look in different directions for the design of powerful computer technology.
Each detail may be the result of an evolved compromise between many conflicting demands. At times, the only explanation for the system's current form may be an appeal to this history of modification.
[...] in a complex computer system designed and functioning properly at a higher level there is often no way to predict how a program will act, short of running it.
We accuse people of lacking common sense precisely when some representation of the situation has blinded them to a space of potentially relevant action.
p 99
Human cognition includes the use of representations, but is not based on representations.
(the speed of evolution is driven by the speed of the coupling) It is highly unlikely that any system we can build will be able to undergo this kind of evolutionary change (or learning) that would enable it to come close to the intelligence of even a small worm, much less that of a person.[Not more conclusive than that!]
p 104
Analytic (rationalistic) tradition: clear criteria that would be needed to design objective experiments.
p 106
We treat other people not as merely 'rational beings' but as 'responsible beings'. An essential part of being human is the ability to enter into commitments and to be responsible for the course of action that they anticipate.