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For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed fathers of the discipline of AI, sets out to provide an abstract model of how the human mind really works. His thesis is that our minds consist of a huge aggregation of tiny mini-minds or agents that have evolved to perform highly specific tasks. Most of these agents lack the attributes we think of as intelligence and are severely limited in their ability to intercommunicate. Yet rational thought, feeling, and purposeful action result from the interaction of these basic components. Minsky's theory does not suggest a specific implementation for building intelligent machines. Still, this book may prove to be one of the most influential for the future of AI.
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Minsky, cofounder of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is a charter member of the community of AI pioneers committed to understanding the workings of the human mind and mimicking its processes by computer. Here he takes his place as this generation's Buckminster Fullera revered seminal thinker whose depth and originality sometimes place him out of reach for many. But Minsky's difference is his style: he writes aphoristically, with wit and precision, and makes the most of his perception that the mind learns by images, which perform as agents that connect, interact and even "censor" in a staggeringly subtle "society" of microprocedures. This holistic view of the mind's learning stages is the culmination of Minsky's study, and its insights into the developing world of computers-as-machines are matched by paradoxically intuitive glimpses of the growth of a sense of "self" through introspection, short- and long-term memory, mind-frames utilizing pictures and language. Minsky's creative terminology for freshly perceived mental processes is a major contribution to the future of mind-science. Illustrated. Major ad/promo; Macmillan Book Club alternate.
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Minsky's signature work,
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In this collection of papers on how the mind work, Minsky seamlessly melds Cognitive Science, Psychology and Artifical Intelligence concepts into a collection of theories that explore the working of the mind.While Researchers in the different fields have looked at individual aspects of how we think, Minsky, in this defining work seeks to develop a general theoretical foundation of thinking. Finding that no one theory appears to be sufficient to the task, this work offers a collections of inter-realated theories. At its heart is the concept that we describe as 'Mind', and generally conceptualize as one 'thing' is in fact a hierarachy of Societies; societies of agents; agents that in themselves contain little intelligence but organized into inter-related and inter-connected agencies, each with its own specialized abilities, collectively give rise to the intelligent thinking entity we simpistically call a mind. The concepts and theories he posits are not just applicable to Biological Wetware but are meant to be translatable in equal measure to applications in silica. A truly seminal work and a must read for all Students and Practitioners of AI , this book can still be appreciated by the layman with a fascination for things cerebral.
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best book ever,
By Jean Legros (Verdun, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Society of Mind (Hardcover)
I've never read anything as brilliant as this book. It's easy to read and couldn't put it down
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a modern "The Origin of Species",
By T. Aubuchon "/:set\AI transmedia" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Society Of Mind (Paperback)
like Darwin's epiphany- Minsky's genius has revealed an idea that once understood- it is almost unquestionable- and makes you shout "Of course! how could I have not seen it!"
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