Labels:bulletin board | reckoner OCR: The big problem with inventing sequences and producing original behaviors is safety Even simple reversals in order can be dangerous asin "Look after you leap Our capacity to make analogies and mental models gives us measure Qf protection however We humans can simulate future courses of action and weed out the nonsense off-line; as philosopher Karl Popper said this "permits our hypotheses to die in our stead. Creativity indeed the whole high end of intelligence and consciousness involves playing mental games that shape up quality before acting What kind of mental machinery might it take to do something like that? By 1874 just 15 years after Darwin published The Origin Species, the American psychologist William James was talking about mental processes operating ina Darwinian manner in effect ...