I've worked with AI for a very long time now - since 1990 and on
  and off through the years, [1]Daniel Kessey . I even had contact
  with David Deusche for a few years in the 90s (before he got
  famous for his quantum computation stuff) although we weren't
  talking about that stuff on the younger Internet.

  This doesn't make me an authority by any means. But I've watched
  a simple educational analogy for teaching brain functions
  blossom into a belief system that gets reinforced continually
  and I've followed new technologies as they've emerged and the
  levels of HYPERBOLE being spewed out that people believe would
  blow my mind except it's what's being TAUGHT.

  Same thing happened in Theoretical Physics. Mathematics is an
  analogy. It's not the Universe. But it's a mostly successful
  analogy and allows us to use tools to do things with.

  But then.. you get people writing books and making speeches that
  "The Universe is Mathematics" and people buy it. Eat it up.
  Believe it. A scientist said it. Must be so. Yet the key piece
  is missing - the emperor has no clothes.

  I suppose it's inspirational. It makes good news stories. But
  it's highly illogical and wrong. The analogies took over
  thinking because they're easier to deal with. But still wrong.

References

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  1. https://www.facebook.com/daniel.kessey?hc_location=ufi

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