Cambrian intelligence

Here is a citation from http://www.cs.umd.edu/~anderson/papers/AI_Review.pdf
about Rodney Brooks role in changing the focus of AI research:

2. Cambrian intelligence
Although Hubert Dreyfus must be given a great deal of credit for first drawing attention to the limitations of GOFAI [30], I think it can be argued that the single figure most responsible for the new AI is Rodney Brooks. A collection of his seminal papers has recently appeared [15] which together comprise not just a sustained critique of the central hypothesis of GOFAI, but the outlines of a philosophically astute and scientifically principled alternative. The book is split into two sections, Technology and Philosophy, with the former containing such papers as “A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot”, and the latter “Intelligence without Representation” and “Intelligence without Reason”, among others. “Intelligence without Reason”, by far the longest paper in the collection (pp. 133–186), is also the most complete statement of Brooks’ guiding philosophy, and today stands as the overall best introduction to the principles and motivations of the new AI.
As we have seen, traditional AI is characterized by an understanding of intelligence which foregrounds the notions of thought and reason, and adopts certain conventions for approaching these which centrally involve the creation of representations, and the deployment of high-level cognitive skills such as planning and problem solving. For Brooks, however, such an approach “cannot account for large aspects of what goes into intelligence” (p. 134). In contrast to this high-level or top-down approach to intelligence, Brooks advocates studying intelligence from the bottom up, and specifically urges us to recall our evolutionary lineage. As evolved creatures, human beings are largely continuous with our forebears, and we have inherited from them a substrate of capacities and systems for meeting our needs in, and generally coping with a given environment."

It continues with the discussion about what is wrong about the "classical" approch to AI. I dont care. I simply ignore it.