Describing the Mind as a Society that arises out of ever-smaller, mindless agents, each chapter corresponds to a single puzzle piece and a unified theory of the Mind emerges before the eyes.
Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination..
As the pages turn, a unified theory of the Mind emerges, like a mosaic.
Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle.
Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way.
Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old question: How does the Mind work? Minsky brilliantly portrays the Mind as a Society of tiny components that are themselves mindless.
Illustrated.
Describing the Mind as a Society that arises out of ever-smaller, mindless agents, each chapter corresponds to a single puzzle piece and a unified theory of the Mind emerges before the eyes
