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Marvin Minsky on Mind

1927–2016 United States

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The mind holds tightly to its secrets not from stinginess or shame, but simply because it does not know them.

An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

Each agent needs to know which of its servants can do what, but as to how, that information has no place or use inside those tiny minds inside our minds.

The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ... It's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

The Society of Mind (1988)

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.

The Society of Mind (1988)

Some form of self-awareness is surely essential to highly intelligent thought... On the other hand, I doubt that any part of a mind can see very deeply into other parts; it can only use models it constructs of them.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Marvin Minsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.