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  • For Bergson, laughter is punishment for forgetting to not be an automaton (man, its half Minsky half-anti. See Marvin Minsky/on jokes.
    • The brain can't store representation, that would be absurd (eh)
    • First chapter is mindblowing (of M&M)
      • materialism, idealism, dualism alla gree about representation (?)
        • Spinoza was dualism? He muffs this
        • Matter and mind reflect each other.
        • You need a god to harmonize a dualism (?)
        • All 3 are intellectual, spatialized.
    • Maybe my problem is that Agre & Chapman blew my mind in this way in the mid 1980s so what do I have to with this now.
    • multiplicity if images (or maybe ideas)
    • image is halfway between thing and idea (? oh bollocks)
    • matter is deterministic...
    • But minds haver a zone of indetermination...in the gaps of causality ... somehow a function of the body. Body can choose (p5) – a center of action
    • the brain is an image? What?

Marvin Minsky/on jokes

30 Oct 2021 - 16 Apr 2026
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