If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all other things we know. Well-connected representations let you turn ideas around in your mind, to envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works for you. And that's what we mean by thinking!
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck. - Marvin Minsky
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
- Marvin Minsky
I bet the human brain is a kludge - Marvin Minsky
I bet the human brain is a kludge
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either. - Marvin Minsky
No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. - Marvin Minsky
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and except… - Marvin Minsky
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and except…
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. - Marvin Minsky
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've… - Marvin Minsky
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've…
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best. - Marvin Minsky
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least. - Marvin Minsky
In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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