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Inventive Minds

Society of Mind

The Emotion Machine

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Why programming is a good medium for expressing poorly understood and sloppily-formulated ideas

on Philosophers

vs Situated Action

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Myself, I do this frequently, by imitating Imprimers and teachers. (Emotion Machine p227)

from Marvin Minsky/vs Chomsky

Surprisingly deep review of Emotion Machine, with some examples of the Chomsky enmity.

from shame

Michael Lewis, Shame: The Exposed Self, cited in Emotion Machine along with Self-Conscious Emotions

from Marvin Minsky/Society of Mind

In later days, presumably in attempts to make it seem more like an implementable theory, the agentic language was toned down, and in Marvin Minsky/The Emotion Machine, Minsky's follow-up to The Society of Mind, he explicitly disavows such talk:

from dumbbell theory

Marvin Minsky's term for a sort of stupid dualism that infects traditional theories of mind. From Emotion Machine or its drafts https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/eb9.html. It's kind of like Buddhist nondualism except totally different in motivation.

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Marvin Minsky/The Emotion Machine

07 Mar 2022 - 05 Aug 2023

A sequel to Marvin Minsky/Society of Mind.

From Lecture 1: Introduction | Video Lectures | The Society of Mind | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science | MIT OpenCourseWare

Lunch with Oppenheimer, Gödel, and Einstein (!)

A questioner asks about Buddhism and he complains that their theories aren't experimentally verifiable, which I have to say is a bit rich. Argh. "Ancient wisdom is generally not very good".