The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situation. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing, for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.
- Aldous Huxley in Brave New World Revisited
I am carefully reading Brave New World Revisited with a particular interest in what his views might have been on artificial intelligence. I could ask AI for that, but for some odd reason prefer to go to the original source.
Trivia point: On the same sad day in November 1963 that John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Aldous Huxley and C. S. Lewis died.
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