Society Of Mind

內容簡介
 Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: "How does the mind work?"

Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination.

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For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed fathers of the discipline of AI, sets out to provide an abstract model of how the human mind really works. His thesis is that our minds consist of a huge aggregation of tiny mini-minds or agents that have evolved to perform highly specific tasks. Most of these agents lack the attributes we think of as intelligence and are severely limited in their ability to intercommunicate. Yet rational thought, feeling, and purposeful action result from the interaction of these basic components. Minsky's theory does not suggest a specific implementation for building intelligent machines. Still, this book may prove to be one of the most influential for the future of AI.

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Martin Gardner The Boston Sunday Globe SPARKLING WITH JOKES and apt quotations...and rich insights. -- Review

作者簡介

Marvin Minsky is the Donner Professor of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and former president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

目錄

CONTENTS

1 PROLOGUE

1.1 THE AGENTS OF THE MIND

1.2 THE MIND AND THE BRAIN

1.3 THE SOCIETY OF MIND

1.4 THE WORLD OF BLOCKS

1.5 COMMON SENSE

1.6 AGENTS AND AGENCIES

2 WHOLES AND PARTS

2.1 COMPONENTS AND CONNECTIONS

2.2 NOVELISTS AND REDUCTIONISTS

2.3 PARTS AND WHOLES

2.4 HOLES AND PARTS

2.5 EASY THINGS ARE HARD

2.6 ARE PEOPLE MACHINES?

3 CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE

3.1 CONFLICT

3.2 NONCOMPROMISE

3.3 HIERARCHIES

3.4 HETERARCHIES

3.5 DESTRUCTIVENESS

3.6 PAIN AND PLEASURE SIMPLIFIED

4 THE SELF

4.1 THE SELF

4.2 ONE SELF OR MANY?

4.3 THE SOUL

4.4 THE CONSERVATIVE SELF

4.5 EXPLOITATION

4.6 SELF-CONTROL

4.7 LONG-RANGE PLANS

4.8 IDEALS

5 INDIVIDUALITY

5.1 CIRCULAR CAUSALITY

5.2 UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS

5.3 THE REMOTE-CONTROL SELF

5.4 PERSONAL IDENTITY

5.5 FASHION AND STYLE

5.6 TRAITS

5.7 PERMANENT IDENTITY

6 INSIGHT AND INTROSPECTION

6.1 CONSCIOUSNESS

6.2 SIGNALS AND SIGNS

6.3 THOUGHT-EXPERIMENTS

6.4 B-BRAINS

6.5 FROZEN REFLECTION

6.6 MOMENTARY MENTAL TIME

6.7 THE CAUSAL NOW

6.8 THINKING WITHOUT THINKING

6.9 HEADS IN THE CLOUDS

6.10 WORLDS OUT OF MIND

6.11 IN-SIGHT

6.12 INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

6.13 SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS

6.14 CONFUSION

7 PROBLEMS AND GOALS

7.1 INTELLIGENCE

7.2 UNCOMMON SENSE

7.3 THE PUZZLE PRINCIPLE

7.4 PROBLEM SOLVING

7.5 LEARNING AND MEMORY

7.6 REINFORCEMENT AND REWARD

7.7 LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY

7.8 DIFFERENCE-ENGINES

7.9 INTENTIONS

7.10 GENIUS

8 A THEORY OF MEMORY

8.1 K-LINES: A THEORY OF MEMORY

8.2 RE-MEMBERING

8.3 MENTAL STATES AND DISPOSITIONS

8.4 PARTIAL MENTAL STATES

8.5 LEVEL-BANDS

8.6 LEVELS

8.7 FRINGES

8.8 SOCIETIES OF MEMORIES

8.9 KNOWLEDGE-TREES

8.10 LEVELS AND CLASSIFICATIONS

8.11 LAYERS OF SOCIETIES

9 SUMMARIES

9.1 WANTING AND LIKING

9.2 GERRYMANDERING

9.3 LEARNING FROM FAILURE

9.4 ENJOYING DISCOMFORT

10 PAPERT'S PRINCIPLE

10.1 PIAGET'S EXPERIMENTS

10.2 REASONING ABOUT AMOUNTS

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