Our brains tread a tightrope between learning too much from the past and incorporating too much new information from the present. The ability to walk this line — to adjust to the demands of different environments and modalities — is one of human cognition's most astonishing traits. Artificial intelligence has yet to come anywhere close. Eli Pariser
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  2. A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.

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