ABSTRACT
Allen Newell — a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University — was involved in the design of some of the earliest developments in articial intelligence. In 1976 he presented a speech at Carnegie Mellon University that was later published in his essay “Fairy Tales,” from which the following statement was taken [1]:
What is interesting about this statement is that it apparently contradicts our perception of computers: Computers usually have the stigma of being not as reasonable and adaptive as the human brain. However, if we think about what a human decision characterizes, we nd that exactly what Newell described as behaving conditionally is an ultimate basis for reasoning, evaluation, and assessment.
