Minsky, Marvin,  1927-2016 <br/><br/>
The society of mind / 
Marvin Minsky ; illustrations by Juliana Lee. 
 - New York :  Simon & Schuster,  1988. 
 - 339 pages :  illustrations ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> "Touchstone book".  Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: pages [326]-332. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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?"<br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0671607405   hardback 0671657135   paperback 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Intellect<br/>Human information processing<br/>Science--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>153