gwern comments on The role of mathematical truths - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 24 April 2010 11:48:31PM 1 point [-]

"...the large, highly evolved sensory and motor portions of the brain seem to be the hidden powerhouse behind human thought. By virtue of the great efficiency of these billion-year-old structures, they may embody one million times the effective computational power of the conscious part of our minds.

While novice performance can be achieved using conscious thought alone, master-level expertise draws on the enormous hidden resources of these old and specialized areas. Sometimes some of that power can be harnessed by finding and developing a useful mapping between the problem and a sensory intuition."

Comment author: RobinZ 25 April 2010 12:10:29AM 2 points [-]

Source, please?

Comment author: ata 25 April 2010 12:13:51AM 1 point [-]

Moravec, "Mind Children". Page 93 in the copy I'm looking at.