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In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
Marvin Minsky
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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
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We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.
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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
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Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws.
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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.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the real meaning of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
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It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
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Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.
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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
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