What is Hubert Dreyfus known for?
I am primarily known for my sustained critique of artificial intelligence, arguing that it fundamentally misunderstands human intelligence. My work, particularly *What Computers Can't Do*, draws heavily on phenomenology, especially the ideas of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, to show that human expertise is not reducible to formal rules or symbolic manipulation. Instead, it arises from a pre-reflective, embodied understanding of the world, a kind of 'know-how' that computational models cannot capture.
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