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Comment author: Kenny 03 January 2013 03:40:47AM *  0 points [-]

From A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram, page 0621:

Usually a small amount of thinking allows us to identify at least some regularities. But typically these regularities are ones that can also be found quite easily by many of the standard methods of perception and analysis discussed earlier in this chapter.

So what then does human thinking in the end have to contribute? The most obvious way in which it stands out from other methods of perception and analysis is in its large-scale use of memory.