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Many philosophers, psychologists and artificial intelligence researchers agree that a realistic model of human thinking must involve many independent parallel processes. A revolution in artificial intelligence is about to take place brought about by the introduction of parallel computers, providing us with vast increases in computation power. Parallel machines promise to allow us to effectively model the parallelism inherent in much of human cognition, perception and communication.
“Premature optimization is the root of all evil” — Edsger Dijkstra
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Lieberman, H. (1987). Expecting the Unpredictable: When Computers Can Think in Parallel. In: Vaina, L.M. (eds) Matters of Intelligence. Synthese Library, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3833-5_22
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