![]() After all, the cover art (which authors often have little control over) depicts a tangled USB cord in the shape of a brain. I read Algorithms to Live By: The Co mputer Science of Human Decisions hoping to learn more about the source code of the brain. Without accessing the “source code” of the brain, we might never know why our gut feelings tell us to choose a particular job applicant or buy a mutual fund. We can make fast decisions without consciously thinking, but how do we arrive at the decision? The answer is often a mystery. The answer wasn’t the result of deep thinking or concentration. ![]() How did the computer get the answer? Lacking awareness, the computer doesn’t know. ![]() ![]() Ask a computer to calculate the square root of 54357.029. Responding to the assertion that computers lack intuition, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett once (counter-intuitively) argued that computers must have intuition. ![]()
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