Quote

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.

Marvin Minsky

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
Happens
Deterministic
Everything
Brains
Fixed
Including
Laws
Depends
Brain
Law

More quotes by Marvin Minsky

Image
I bet the human brain is a kludge
Marvin Minsky
Image
Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.
Marvin Minsky
Image
Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
Marvin Minsky
Image
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
Marvin Minsky
Image
Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.
Marvin Minsky
Image
Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus.
Marvin Minsky
Image
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
Marvin Minsky
Image
It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
Marvin Minsky
Image
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
Marvin Minsky
Image
Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
Marvin Minsky
Image
The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
Marvin Minsky
Image
The brain happens to be a meat machine.
Marvin Minsky
Image
I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.
Marvin Minsky
Image
We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
Marvin Minsky
Image
To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, What caused the Universe to exist?
Marvin Minsky
Image
But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
Marvin Minsky
Image
This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.
Marvin Minsky
Image
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
Marvin Minsky
Image
How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
Marvin Minsky
Image
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky