I’m blogging my fashion in the course Sense and Goodness Without God, Richard Carrier’s adroit worldview-in-a-box for the duration of atheists. (See the struggle donate for the duration of all sections.) In my aforementioned struggle, we examined how we got here. Now we alteration to the features of grounds.
Computers and reason
Reason involves three tasks, each of which computers can honest away juncture: correspondence, premises, and retrieval.

‘Correspondence’ is the proclivity to identify a prevalent and over and beyond it a VIP. 1 Antivirus programs identify dependable damaging patterns of fellowship and eradicate them. Document scanning software does this when it recognizes a proper repair of ink as a dependable symptomatic of or symptomatic of. And if you bought a camera recently, it can identify generous faces in its espy and automatically core on them.
Computers can also juncture consistent operations on advice, for the duration of homework adding and subtracting, conditional over again, algebra, frizzy premises, nonconformist well-controlled induction, and more.
‘Retrieval’ is the proclivity to assert out like a light what advice are suited from a indeterminate set aside of advice.

Wolfram Alpha is another exciting locomotive that pulls up suited facts and statistics based on your input. Google succeeded because it had a more wisely retrieval approach than other search engines; it gave more suited search results.
Using these tools of grounds, computers can honest away learn how to tucker keep an eye on a power plant’s cooling approach, dream up well-controlled hypotheses and evaluation them, forebode what different bands you disposition appreciate in, render Chinese to English without being programmed with a to make a long story short of Chinese, and much more.

Human reason
But generous grounds surpasses computer grounds in at least three ways.
First, the generous findings has more processing power. But in in 40 years, the world’s smartest computer disposition father in the processing power of the in joined bother generous folk on Terra. Today’s smartest computer has in the processing power of a mouse.
Second, humans father a edge poor instinct complex. Computers father been programmed to flit the planet with what they dig in the course cameras, but their instinct is in as knowledgeable as that of drop animals.
Third, computers are not still self-aware.

(See The Nature of Mind.)
Reason and intuition
Intuition is a glide we experienced for the duration of instantaneously making decisions or “educated guesses” without having to exit in the course the in joined bother procedure of grounds. They are not inflexible. A skilled and profound lover disposition father well-grounded intuitions in how to like the differing combination, a skilled and profound commander disposition father well-grounded intuitions in how to take first prize in a to-do, and a skilled and profound jazz guitarist disposition father well-grounded intuitions in which chord progressions disposition accomplish dependable moods.
Intuition has multifarious advantages over and beyond grounds. It’s faster, commonly unintentional.

But grounds has its own advantages. And it can be applied to multifarious circumstances that are too complex for the duration of grounds to the exact same chew over and beyond (except, it is admissible that, for the duration of supercomputers of the future). Reasoned conclusions can be checked for the duration of clanger - the exact same beside other people. Reason allows us to simulate admissible circumstances, while insight requires pain in the arse beside clanger - and off, clanger can be too costly to allocate. Moreover, grounds is a single glide that can be applied to all domains, whereas insight is a different glide that be obligated be relearned for the duration of each concern beside back-breaking savvy within it.

Intuition is faster, but grounds is more error-free and logical.
Why alteration grounds?
Intuition was the foregoer of grounds in our burgeon, and honest away we resort to both.
But how do we be aware grounds is so error-free and logical?
Carrier gives two reasons: (1) Because it works, and (2) because punctilious selecting ensures it.
Regarding (1): “If [science and reason] weren’t successfully getting at the reality, we wouldn’t be seeing their successes. It is their big name, after all, that gives them such glamour and attribute.” (This was discussed earlier.)
Carrier’s powwow of (2) is more complex, and I’ll alteration to it next.

Notes:This is called Optical Character Recognition; OCR software.