The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human MindSimon and Schuster, 2007 M11 13 - 400 páginas In this mind-expanding book, scientific pioneer Marvin Minsky continues his groundbreaking research, offering a fascinating new model for how our minds work. He argues persuasively that emotions, intuitions, and feelings are not distinct things, but different ways of thinking. By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form of carefully reasoned analysis and at other times turns to emotion. He shows how our minds progress from simple, instinctive kinds of thought to more complex forms, such as consciousness or self-awareness. And he argues that because we tend to see our thinking as fragmented, we fail to appreciate what powerful thinkers we really are. Indeed, says Minsky, if thinking can be understood as the step-by-step process that it is, then we can build machines -- artificial intelligences -- that not only can assist with our thinking by thinking as we do but have the potential to be as conscious as we are. Eloquently written, The Emotion Machine is an intriguing look into a future where more powerful artificial intelligences await. |
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... models of ourselves. For centuries, psychologists searched for ways to explain our everyday mental processes—yet many thinkers still today regard the nature of mind as a mystery. indeed, it still is widely believed that minds are made ...
... models of ourselves. For centuries, psychologists searched for ways to explain our everyday mental processes—yet many thinkers still today regard the nature of mind as a mystery. indeed, it still is widely believed that minds are made ...
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... models, each of which tries to represent some particular aspects of your mind—to answer some questions about yourself. 1-3. Moods. and. emotions. William James 1890: “if one should seek to name each particular one of them of which the human ...
... models, each of which tries to represent some particular aspects of your mind—to answer some questions about yourself. 1-3. Moods. and. emotions. William James 1890: “if one should seek to name each particular one of them of which the human ...
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... model could help to explain why human infants so frequently show such sudden changes in their states. But certainly, in later years, children develop more fluent techniques through which their resources can be aroused and suppressed to ...
... model could help to explain why human infants so frequently show such sudden changes in their states. But certainly, in later years, children develop more fluent techniques through which their resources can be aroused and suppressed to ...
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... model of mind suggests that such a change could result when a certain selector activates a certain particular set of resources. thus charles's attraction to celia becomes stronger because a certain selector has suppressed most of his ...
... model of mind suggests that such a change could result when a certain selector activates a certain particular set of resources. thus charles's attraction to celia becomes stronger because a certain selector has suppressed most of his ...
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FROM PAIN TO SUFFERING | 66 |
CONSCIOUSNESS | 94 |
LEVELS OF MENTAL ACTIVITIES | 129 |
COMMON SENSE | 162 |
THINKING | 215 |
RESOURCEFULNESS | 254 |
THE SELF | 298 |
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Página 80 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 82 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Página 247 - He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This amicable conflict with difficulty obliges us to an intimate acquaintance with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.
Página 145 - There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.
Página 293 - THAT all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations...
Página 104 - The motion of our body follows upon the command of our will. Of this we are every moment conscious. But the means, by which this is effected; the energy, by which the will performs so extraordinary an operation; of this we are so far from being immediately conscious, that it must for ever escape our most diligent enquiry.
Página 26 - Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Página 235 - One evening, contrary to my custom, I drank black coffee and could not sleep. Ideas rose in crowds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.
Página 194 - There is one principal and as it were radical distinction between different minds, in respect of philosophy and the sciences; which is this : that some minds are stronger and apter to mark the differences of things, others to mark their resemblances. The steady and acute mind can fix its contemplations and dwell and fasten on the subtlest distinctions: the lofty and discursive mind recognizes and puts together the finest and most general resemblances. Both kinds however easily err in excess, by catching...
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In Order to Learn: How the Sequence of Topics Influences Learning Frank E. Ritter,Josef Nerb,Erno Lehtinen,Timothy M. O'Shea Vista previa limitada - 2007 |
Handbook of Emotions, Third Edition Michael Lewis,Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones,Lisa Feldman Barrett Vista previa limitada - 2008 |