Seriously. When I was reading that part it gave me the chills as even reading it again now is. I always knew the next step in computing, as can only be logical since life and pretty much how everything in the universe is not binary, would be maybe logic. Long before I knew RAW wrote a book and registered the domain name "Maybe Logic" it just made sense to me that for AI to really get more realistic, it'd have to use maybe logic like the rest of us. I bet early man was closer to operating on a binary type system where things definitely were or definitely were not. Lions were definitely not easy to take down, caves were definitely a way to get in out of the elements. Then maybe came in, either on accident or by observation and started using things around us as tools. Wind, like magnetic fields is invisible but through observation we thought, maybe if we put up something thats a little more solid it can move us along with it. Like the experiment, we had to learn to utilize the sun as our clock where each cycle they had a certain amount of time they could get something done before it was dark. The better they got at understanding the sun and the moon, thus creating for them the clock, the more they could use it to their advantage to noticing the speed at which events happen.

On that thought it made me think about the "What if we're already living in a simulation." thread. I mean, for how many thousands of years did we solely rely on a trial and error kinda system before we refined things enough to setup other things to do all the trial and error checking in less harmful ways mimic'ing our own reality to understand it. We've about hit the point where while we can still make advancements in technology ourselves, like a creator why not let something else do a lot of the work for us while we can focus on other things too and come back and observe it every now and again.