By Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky -- one of many fathers of desktop technology and cofounder of the substitute Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- provides a innovative resolution to the age-old query: "How does the brain work?"
Minsky brilliantly portrays the brain as a "society" of tiny elements which are themselves senseless. Mirroring his conception, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an highbrow puzzle whose items are assembled alongside the best way. every one bankruptcy -- on a self-contained web page -- corresponds to a bit within the puzzle. because the pages flip, a unified idea of the brain emerges, like a mosaic. inventive, fun, and straightforward to learn, The Society of Mind is an experience in mind's eye.
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To do this, the interruption machinery must be supplied with a private memory bank that can store enough information to make it possible, later, to restart the frozen program as though nothing had happened. Are brains equipped to do similar things? It was easy to build self-examination systemsinto computers that did only one thing at a time, but it would be much harder to do in a system that, like the brain, engagesmany processesat once. The problem is that if you were to freeze only one process without stopping the others, it would change the situation you're trying to examine.
Eventually,it all must end with agentsthat do actualwork, but there are many stepsbeforewe getto all the little muscle-motoragentsthat actuallymovethe armsand handsand fingerioints. who actually Thus Builder is like a highJevelexecutive,far removedfrom thosesubordinates producethe final product. Not at all. When any enterprise becomestoo complex and large for one personto do, we construct organizationsin which certain agentsare concerned,not with the final result,but only with what someother agents do.
You feel that nothing's more importantthan findingsomewayto stopthe pain. Painsimplifiesyour point of view. When somethinggivesyou pleasure,then, too, it's hard to think of other things. You feel that nothing's more important than finding a way to make that pleasurelast. It alsosimplifiesyour point of view. Somehow,they disrupt our concernswith long-termgoals-thus forcing us to focus on immediateproblems,perhips by transferringcontrol to our lowestlevelagencies. Of course,this can do more hat* lhan good, especiallywhen, in order to removethe sourceof pain, one has to make a complex plan.