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December 2006
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December 05, 2006
Minsky's Emotion Machine
Marvin Minsky has just released his first book in 20 years. Titled "The Emotion Machine," its thesis appears to extend and nuance the vision Minsky popularized in The Society of Mind -- the idea that mind is the net result of dynamic interactions within a messily-hierarchical population of more or less-specialized agents, which jockey for position and evolve as a result of their commerce. In the new book, or so the reports of early readers suggest, Minsky shows how emotions work in this context, how they compute and can be computed, and are, at base, just "another tool for thinking with."
The International Herald Tribune today reprinted a brief interview with Minsky about the book (originally appearing in the Boston Globe) which is worth a read.
Posted by John Jainschigg at 01:00 PM Permalink
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