Researchers are creating systems which can mimic human thought, understand speech, beat the best human chess player, and countless other feats never before possible. ... Another mathematician, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, improved Pascal's machine and made his own contribution to the philosophy of reasoning by proposing an easier way by making an equation. ... Thomas Jefferson, for example, was sure that such a system existed, and only needed to be discovered. ... George Boole proposed a system of "laws of thought," Boolean Logic, which uses "AND" and "OR" and "NOT" to establish how ide...

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