The society of mind / Marvin Minsky ; illustrations by Juliana Lee.

By:

Minsky, Marvin, 1927-2016 [author]

Contributor(s):

Lee, Juliana [illustrator]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1988.Description: 339 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0671607405
0671657135

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

Contents:

Prologue -- Wholes and parts -- Conflict and Compromise -- The self -- Individuality -- Insight and introspection -- Problems and goals -- A theory of memory -- Summaries -- Papert's principle -- The shape of space -- Learning meaning -- Seeing and believing -- Reformulation -- Consciousness and memory -- Emotion -- Development -- Reasoning -- Words and ideas -- Context and ambiguity -- Trans-frames -- Expression -- Comparisons -- Frames -- Frame-arrays -- Language-frames -- Censors and jokes -- The mind and the world -- The realms of thought -- Mental models.

Summary: "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 that are themselves mindless. 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 an adventure in imagination."-- Back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	153 MIN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010995		Tasis, Theofanis

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"Touchstone book".

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages [326]-332.

"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 that are themselves mindless. 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 an adventure in imagination."-- Back cover.