Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Lee Minskywas an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence, co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth9 August 1927
CountryUnited States of America
mind
An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
technology years able
It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
brain making-changes principal
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
real mind world
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.
law brain free-will
Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
brain machines meat
The brain happens to be a meat machine.
music personal-knowledge listening
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
humorous thinking people
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
mind littles mindless
We'll show you that you can build a mind from many little parts, each mindless by itself.
ignorance skills names
What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work.
brain human-brain humans
I bet the human brain is a kludge
mistake eye doors
We rarely recognize how wonderful it is that a person can traverse an entire lifetime without making a single really serious mistake — like putting a fork in one's eye or using a window instead of a door.
typewriters trying sound
A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren’t flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it.
years pet computer
Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.