Carlos Gershenson Quotes

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Carlos Gershenson (born 1978) is a Mexican computer scientist, and researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has worked on topics such as self-organizing systems, complexity, artificial life, information, cognitive science, and philosophy.

All ideas are valid in the context they were created.

p.86 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.

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— p.5 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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How can we ask ourselves how can we ask ourselves?

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— p.18 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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If something has an explanation, you can explain it. If it has no explanation, you should explain why you cannot explain it.

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— p.19 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.

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— p.25 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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Before being humans, we are animals.

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— p.26 (also on p.4)

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The only impossible thing is something to be impossible.

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— p.93 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.

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— p.94 (Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents (2001))

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The question is not whether something is wrong with subjectivity. We are embedded in it, so we can only deal with it, or be blind and attempt to ignore it.

Carlos Gershenson
— Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007, p. 29)

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Nothing is free of its own limits.

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— p.38 (Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007))

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Philosophers get paid for posing interesting questions; scientists for answering them. Thus, one cannot live without the other...

Carlos Gershenson
— p.60 (Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007))

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All human relationships are based on misunderstandings.

Carlos Gershenson
— p.102 (Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007))

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Winning or losing does not matter as much as what you learn from it.

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— p.133 (Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (2007))

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Knowledge brings more questions than answers

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— Quote in: Carlos Gershenson (2007) Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems. p.144
However Eduardo Gianetti (2001) Lies We Live By: The Art of Self Deception p.136 stated:
Laplace's omniscient intelligence transcends the human condition and, what's more serious, seems to get ever more and more out of reach, as the advance of scientific knowledge brings more questions than answers.

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