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Try, if you will, to teach a computer how to play tennis. It would be impossible, of course. Yet, the proposition alone points to just what outstanding levels of performance a human being is capable of achieving. A person’s intelligence, his sensory skills and his motor skills are enormous.
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Fahnenbruck, G. (2013). Information Assimilation and Processing. In: Ebermann, HJ., Scheiderer, J. (eds) Human Factors on the Flight Deck. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31733-0_2
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