"Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time"

This quote by Thomas Nagel recommends that the existing efforts to comprehend the mind by comparing it to manufactured computer systems is a wild-goose chase. He believes that the mind is a lot more complex than a computer and can not be completely understood by comparing it to a maker. He thinks that the mind is capable of a lot more than a computer, such as conscious idea, and that these attempts to understand the mind by comparing it to a computer system are misdirected. He believes that the mind is too complicated to be fully comprehended by comparing it to a machine and that these efforts are a wild-goose chase. He believes that the mind can a lot more than a computer system and that these efforts to comprehend the mind by comparing it to a computer system are misdirected. He believes that the mind is too complex to be completely understood by comparing it to a machine which these attempts are a wild-goose chase.