There is a pervasive conceptual blindness among scientists engaged in the effort to create ever more powerful computers.
Illustrating both a lack of insight and a surfeit of hubris, many are claiming that as cutting-edge computers now exceed 35 trillion calculations per second they are approaching the ability to mimic the human mind.
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