"We must be careful, however, not to let the process of acquiring new ideas interfere with the detailed knowledge that our vehicle has assiduously collected and carefully stored in many associative connections during its lifetime. We know that this may happen in humans who are overly dedicated to the development of ideas. They tend to connect many individual cases into general categories ad then use the categories as if they were things, losing the potential for categorizing in other ways by remembering each instance."
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p. 52 as cited in: Vehicles – Valentino Braitenberg, 1984 at problemboard.com, 2013
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Valentino Braitenberg
Valentino Braitenberg (June 18, 1926 – September 9, 2011) was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist, best known for the 1984 book Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology.
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