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The Society of Mind Text & Video Archive
Next: Prologue
Society of Mind
The Society of Mind
Written by Marvin Minsky
Formatted for the web by Dylan Holmes
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prologue
1 Building blocks
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
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 confusion
2.7 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
the self4.1
_4.2_ one self or many?
the soul4.3
_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
consciousness6.1
_6.2_ signals and signs
_6.3_ thought-experiments
_6.4_ B-Brains
_6.5_ Frozen reflection
momentary mental time6.6
_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
_7_ problems and goals
_7.1_ intelligence
uncommon sense7.2
_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
_10.3_ priorities
papert's principle10.4
_10.5_ the society-of-more
_10.6_ about piaget's experiments
_10.7_ the concept of concept
_10.8_ education and development
_10.9_ learning a hierarchy
_11_ the shape of space
_11.1_ seeing red
_11.2_ the shape of space
_11.3_ nearnesses
_11.4_ innate geography
_11.5_ sensing similarities
_11.6_ the centered self
_11.7_ predestined learning
_11.8_ half-brains
_11.9_ dumbbell theories
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_12_ learning meaning
_12.1_ a block-arch scenario
_12.2_ learning meaning
_12.3_ uniframes
_12.4_ structure and function
_12.5_ the function of structures
_12.6_ accumulation
_12.7_ accumulation strategies
_12.8_ problems of disunity
_12.9_ the exception principle
_12.10_ how towers work
_12.11_ how causes work
_12.12_ meaning and definition
_12.13_ bridge-definitions
_13_ seeing and believing
_13.1_ reformulation
_13.2_ boundaries
_13.3_ seeing and believing
_13.4_ children's drawing-frames
_13.5_ learning a script
_13.6_ the frontier effect
_13.7_ duplications
_14_ reformulation
_14.1_ using reformulation
_14.2_ means and ends
_14.3_ seeing squares
_14.4_ brainstorming
the investment principle14.5
_14.6_ parts and holes
_14.7_ the power of negative thinking
_14.8_ the interaction-square
_15_ Consciousness and memory
_15.1_ momentary mental state
_15.2_ self-examination
_15.3_ memory
_15.4_ memories of memories
_15.5_ the immanence illusion
_15.6_ many kinds of memory
_15.7_ memory rearrangements
anatomy of memory15.8
_15.9_ interruption and recovery
_15.10_ losing track
_15.11_ the recursion principle
_16_ emotion
emotion16.1
_16.2_ mental growth
mental proto-specialists16.3
_16.4_ cross-exclusion
_16.5_ avalanche effects
_16.6_ motivation
_16.7_ exploitation
_16.8_ stimulus vs. simulus
_16.9_ infant emotions
_16.10_ adult emotions
_17_ development
sequences of teaching-selves17.1
_17.2_ attachment-learning
_17.3_ attachment simplifies
_17.4_ functional autonomy
_17.5_ developmental stages
_17.6_ prerequisites for growth
_17.7_ genetic timetables
_17.8_ attachment-images
_17.9_ different spans of memories
_17.10_ intellectual trauma
_17.11_ intellectual ideals
_18_ reasoning
must machines be logical?18.1
_18.2_ chains of reasoning
_18.3_ chaining
logical chains18.4
_18.5_ strong arguments
_18.6_ magnitude from multitude
_18.7_ what is a number?
mathematics made hard18.8
_18.9_ robustness and recovery
_19_ Words and ideas
the roots of intention19.1
_19.2_ the language-agency
words and ideas19.3
_19.4_ objects and properties
_19.5_ polynemes
_19.6_ recognizers
_19.7_ weighing evidence
_19.8_ generalizing
_19.9_ recognizing thoughts
_19.10_ closing the ring
_20_ context and ambiguity
_20.1_ ambiguity
_20.2_ negotiating ambiguity
_20.3_ visual ambiguity
_20.4_ locking-in and weeding-out
_20.5_ micronemes
_20.6_ the nemeic spiral
_20.7_ connections
connection lines20.8
distributed memory20.9
_21_ trans-frames
_21.1_ the pronouns of the mind
_21.2_ pronomes
_21.3_ trans-frames
_21.4_ communication among agents
_21.5_ automatism
_21.6_ trans-frame pronomes
_21.7_ generalizing with pronomes
_21.8_ attention
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_22_ expression
_22.1_ pronomes and polynemes
_22.2_ isonomes
_22.3_ de-specializing
_22.4_ learning and teaching
_22.5_ inference
_22.6_ expression
_22.7_ causes and clauses
_22.8_ interruptions
_22.9_ pronouns and references
_22.10_ verbal expression
_22.11_ creative expression
_23_ comparisons
_23.1_ a world of differences
_23.2_ differences and duplicates
_23.3_ time blinking
_23.4_ the meanings of more
_23.5_ foreign accents
_24_ frames
_24.1_ the speed of thought
_24.2_ frames of mind
_24.3_ How trans-frames work
_24.4_ default assumptions
_24.5_ nonverbal reasoning
_24.6_ direction-nemes
picture-frames24.7
_24.8_ how picture-frames work
_24.9_ recognizers and memorizers
_25_ frame arrays
one frame at a time?25.1
frame-arrays25.2
_25.3_ the stationary world
the sense of continuity25.4
_25.5_ expectations
the frame idea25.6
_26_ language-frames
understanding words26.1
_26.2_ understanding stories
_26.3_ sentence-frames
a party-frame26.4
_26.5_ story-frames
_26.6_ sentence and nonsense
_26.7_ frames for nouns
_26.8_ frames for verbs
_26.9_ language and vision
_26.10_ learning language
_26.11_ grammar
_26.12_ coherent discourse
_27_ censors and jokes
_27.1_ demons
_27.2_ suppressors
_27.3_ censors
_27.4_ exceptions to logic
jokes27.5
_27.6_ humor and censorship
laughter27.7
_27.8_ good humor
_28_ the mind and the world
_28.1_ the myth of mental energy
_28.2_ magnitude and marketplace
_28.3_ quantity and quality
_28.4_ mind over matter
_28.5_ the mind and the world
_28.6_ minds and machines
_28.7_ individual identities
_28.8_ overlapping minds
_29_ the realms of thought
_29.1_ the realms of thought
_29.2_ several thoughts at once
_29.3_ paranomes
_29.4_ cross-realm correspondences
_29.5_ the problem of unity
_29.6_ autistic children
_29.7_ likenesses and analogies
_29.8_ metaphors
mental models30
_30.1_ knowing
_30.2_ knowing and believing
_30.3_ mental models
_30.4_ world models
_30.5_ knowing ourselves
_30.6_ freedom of will
_30.7_ the myth of the third alternative
_30.8_ intelligence and resourcefulness
appendix
postscript
glossary
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