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I am inclined to doubt that anything very resembling formal logic could be a good model for human reasoning. (Marvin Minsky)
Clearly, the child is learning about space! ...how on earth does one learn about time? Can one time fit inside another? Can two of them go side by side? In music, we find out! View quote
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For generations, scientists and philosophers have tried to explain ordinary reasoning in terms of logical principles - with virtually no success. View quote
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Our eyes are always flashing sudden flicks of different pictures to our brains, yet none of that saccadic action leads to any sense of change or motion in the world; each thing reposes calmly in its "place!" View quote
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With the appearance of communications networks and interconnected computers, we got the world wide web, and it changed the lives of most people, I think. View quote
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Some people believe that you should die, and some people think dying is a nuisance. I'm one of the latter. So I think we should get rid of death. View quote
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Sometimes a problem will seem completely insurmountable. Then someone comes up with a simple new idea, or just a rearrangement of old ideas, that completely eliminates it. View quote
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This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. View quote
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I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years. View quote
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By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. View quote
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I bet the human brain is a kludge. (Marvin Minsky)
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets. View quote
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Eventually, robots will make everything. View quote
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways. View quote
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The brain happens to be a meat machine. View quote
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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. View quote
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We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption. View quote
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Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. View quote
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All intelligent persons also possess some larger-scale frame-systems whose members seemed at first impossibly different - like water with electricity, or poetry with music. Yet many such analogies - along with the knowledge of how to apply them - are among our most powerful tools of thought. They explain our ability sometimes to see one thing - or idea - as though it were another, and thus to apply knowledge and experience gathered in one domain to solve problems in another. It is thus that we transfer knowledge via the paradigms of Science. We learn to see gases and fluids as particles, particles as waves, and waves as envelopes of growing spheres. View quote
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Concrete concepts are not necessarily the simplest ones. A novice best remembers "being at" a concert. The amateur remembers more of what it "sounded like." Only the professional remembers the music itself, timbres, tones and textures. View quote
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If explaining minds seems harder than explaining songs, we should remember that sometimes enlarging problems makes them simpler! The theory of the roots of equations seemed hard for centuries within its little world of real numbers, but it suddenly seemed simple once Gauss exposed the larger world of so-called complex numbers. Similarly, music should make more sense once seen through listeners' minds. (Marvin Minsky)
Our eyes are always flashing sudden flicks of different pictures to our brains, yet none of that saccadic action leads to any sense of change or motion in the world; each thing reposes calmly in its "place"! ...What makes us such innate Copernicans? View quote
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The "laws of thought" depend not only on the property of brain cells, but also on how they are connected. And these connections are established not by the basic, "general" laws of physics... To be sure, "general" laws apply to everything. But, for that very reason, they can rarely explain anything in particular. ...Each higher level of description must add to our knowledge about lower levels. View quote
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Photo: Sethwoodworth at English Wikipedia, taken by Bcjordan, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: American Scientist
Born: August 9, 1927
Died: January 24, 2016
Quotes count: 98
Wikipedia: Marvin Minsky

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