Books by author: Marvin Minsky

I re-read this for Ken Haase's seminar (Cognitive Theories of Everything). The ideas have been refreshed in my mind, but a means of implementation still seems tantalizingly out of reach.

The time has come for me to digest this one. From my few brief encounters with the Society of Mind theories, I'm strongly impressed by their ability to explain such elusive properties as "consciousness", "mind", and perhaps "soul", in much the same way that Dawkins, channeling Darwin, explains "life". The ideas are deep, but at the same time extraordinarily simple and easy to understand.