Symbolic Reasoning

“So far we've synthesized basically two varieties, a pattern recognition and a little bit of kind of generative ability. There's this logical deduction You know, symbolic reason. None of these things have we come close to synthesizing.”

“Is it necessary to have explicitly hardwired mechanisms in our brain that allows us to do things like symbolic manipulation or reasoning? And I find that hard to believe that, that they need to be hardwired.”