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The Society of Mind is both the title of a 1986 book and the name of a theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky. [1] In his book of the same name, Minsky constructs a model of human intelligence step by step, built up from the interactions of simple parts called agents, which are themselves mindless. He describes ...
- Marvin Minsky
- 1986
Mar 15, 1988 · Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is ...
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- Marvin Minsky
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- Simon & Schuster
Jan 1, 1985 · Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is ...
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Marvin Minsky The Society of Mind THE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONTEXT OF THE SOCIETY OF MIND As an undergraduate at Harvard, I studied mathematics, physics, psychology, and biology. My bachelor's thesis in mathematics was about fixed points of function on spheres. I conducted physiological experiments on inhibitory motor nerves of the crayfish and studied
May 22, 2012 · The society of mind by Marvin Lee Minsky. Publication date 1986 Topics Intellect, Human information processing, Science -- Philosophy Publisher Simon and Schuster
Marvin Minsky. Simon and Schuster, Mar 15, 1988 - Psychology - 339 pages. Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?" Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components ...
The Minsky Arm, developed by Marvin Minsky in the late 1960s through the early 1970s, uses a camera and computer to build with blocks. Working on the arm served as inspiration for his later work on the human mind. (Photo courtesy of gastev on Flickr. CC-BY.)
