Put it in historical context; the mainframes of Moravec's day were less powerful than a microcontroller which controls the windshield wiper in your car. The fac

Put it in historical context; the mainframes of Moravec's day were less powerful than a microcontroller which controls the windshield wiper in your car. The fact that guys like Moravec were able to build checkers computers, things that could "talk" (at least in the meta-x emacs sense), things that could diagnose infectious diseases as well as a doctor, and things which did applied mathematics (those integrals didn't integrate themselves back in the day) is absolutely astounding. The fact that they we still can't generally solve crap like the lost robot problem which insects are able to handle should also strike you as astounding. That's what the Moravec paradox means. Stuff humans find difficult due to logic, abstraction and theory are often easy for computers, and stuff that bugs can do naturally are still impossible for computers.