After scientists recognized that human intellect was not based on logic, a new theory explaining intelligence, called Connectionism, emerged. Connectionism recognizes the brain as a collection of millions of neurons, each tied to thousands of other neurons that, as a whole, act as the brain’s knowledge base. The brain is able to perform as many as two hundred trillion operations in a second, not serially but simultaneously, and this allows vast amounts of knowledge to be brought to bear on a decision all at once.6
Because of Connectionism, the human brain can instantly access information from previous experience that seems relevant to the problem at hand. This is how the mind can thrive on imperfect information; it ...
