PRAGMATIC INSIGHTS FROM THE EXPERTS

"Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules & exceptions, dispositions & tendencies, balances & checks."

(Marvin Minsky, often respected as one of the foremost researchers & writers in many fields of the computer sciences, particularly in artificial intelligence, the area which studies ways of imitating the human brain’s cognitive functions in a computer; currently still works in MIT, where he founded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; his "opus magnum" has been a fascinating book, 'TheSociety of Mind';)