You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
Interpretation
Understanding requires recognizing multiple perspectives.
This quote by Marvin Minsky emphasizes the importance of looking at situations from various angles. It suggests that true understanding goes beyond a singular perspective and requires an appreciation for the complexity of ideas, problems, and solutions. By advocating for a multi-faceted approach, Minsky encourages critical thinking and open-mindedness in our quest for knowledge.
In practice
This quote can be used in discussions about problem-solving during meetings.
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!
There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
I think every person either inherits or eventually makes up their own idea of what they are and who they are and what caused the world to be, and it seems to me that these stories of creation myth, adopted by different cultures - most of them are less insightful than the stories made up by individual poets and writers.
I believe that everyone has to construct a mental model of what they are and where they came from and why they are as they are, and the word soul in each person is the name for that particular mish-mash of those fully formed ideas of one's nature.
If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.
Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
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