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Review: The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human MindUser Review - Bob Collins - GoodreadsFascinating book. Minsky really challenged my thinking about thinking and consciousness! Read full review Review: The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human MindUser Review - Joe Foley - GoodreadsA great partner book to "The Society of Mind" Read full review Editorial Review - Reed Business Information (c) 2006 All 18 reviews »Twenty years after The Society of Mind, where he introduced the concept that "minds are what brains do," Minsky probes deeper into the question of natural intelligence. Don't look for simple explanations: he believes "we need to find more complicated ways to explain our most familiar mental events"; we need to break our thought processes down into the most precise steps possible. In fact, in order to truly understand the human mind, Minsky suggests, we'll probably need to reverse-engineer a machine that can replicate those functions so we can study it. Thus, he rejects the idea of consciousness as a unitary "Self" in favor of "a decentralized cloud" of more than 20 distinct mental processes. In this view, emotional states like love and shame are not the opposite of rational cogitation; both, Minsky says, are ways of thinking. This is not a book to be read casually; Minsky builds his argument with constant reference to earlier and later sections, imagining objections from a variety of philosophical positions and refuting them. A steady stream of diagrams helps clarify matters, but readers will be forced to dig for the "aha!" moments: they're worth the effort. 100 b&w illus. (Nov. 7) Related books
Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesaaron sloman actions activities allen newell analogies animals answer argue Artificial Intelligence attached B-brain become behavior block brain carol cause chapter charles Charles’s child commonsense knowledge complex connections consciousness contexts credit assignments critics Daniel Dennett describe descriptions develop Douglas Lenat emotions everyday evolved example experience explain feel goals happens hard higher-level human ideas IfVDo imagine imprimers infant inside Joan Joan’s John bowlby k-line keep kinds levels machinery machines Marvin Minsky means memory mental micronemes Minsky models objects one’s ourselves pain particular Perhaps person physical pleasure problem processes psychologists Push Singh questions react realms recognize reflective represent representations retrieve Roger Schank seems selectors Self-Reflective Semantic Networks sense seymour Papert simply single situations Society of Mind solve structures student subgoal suggests switch theories there’s things thoughts tions traits usually we’ll words Popular passagesPage 12 - These strings or streams of narrative issue forth as if from a single source - not just in the obvious physical sense of flowing from just one mouth, or one pencil or pen, but in a more subtle sense: their effect on any audience is to encourage them to (try to) posit a unified agent whose words they are, about whom they are: in short, to posit a center of narrative gravity. Page 2 - Now since shame is a mental picture of disgrace, in which we shrink from the disgrace itself and not from its consequences, and we only care what opinion is held of us because of the people who form that opinion, it follows that the people before whom we feel shame are those whose opinion of us matters to us. Page 12 - ... but no sentiment of his little body, of his emotions, of his psychic strivings as they felt to him, comes up to contribute an element of warmth and intimacy to the narrative we hear, and the main bond of union with our present self thus disappears. It is the same with certain of our dimlyrecollected experiences. Page 12 - Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not building dams or spinning webs, but telling stories—and more particularly concocting and controlling the story we tell others—and ourselves—about who we are.. References to this bookFrom other books
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