The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

Simon & Schuster (336 pages)
Keyword(s): A.I./Mind, Nonfiction
Dates read: January 01-05, 1996, Rating: ****
Also read on: September 09-30, 1996

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.

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