Month: September 2022

NO ALGORITHM. “What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.” (Marvin Minsky, The Society of Mind, p. 308). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind View in LinkedIn

THE HIVE MIND. “To explain the mind, we have to show how minds are built from mindless stuff, from parts that are much smaller and simpler than anything we'd consider smart. Unless we can explain the mind in terms of things that have no thoughts or feelings of their own, we'll only have gone around in a circle.” https://lnkd.in/dWW4qJk View in LinkedIn

THE ANTS OF THE MIND. “The mind is a community of "agents." Each has limited powers and can communicate only with certain others. The powers of mind emerge from their interactions for none of the Agents, by itself, has significant intelligence.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind View in LinkedIn

AGENTS OF THE MIND. “Most people still believe that no machine could ever be conscious, or feel ambition, jealousy, humor, or have any other mental life-experience. To be sure, we are still far from being able to create machines that do all the things people do. But this only means that we need better theories about how thinking works. This book will show how the tiny machines that we'll call agents of the mind could be the long sought particles that those theories need.” https://lnkd.in/djaJS-n View in LinkedIn

DUMB PARTS. “We want to explain intelligence as a combination of simpler things. This means that we must be sure to check, at every step, that none of our agents is, itself, intelligent." The same with living cells made of innate molecular parts. https://lnkd.in/dQ9SQiK View in LinkedIn

COMBINATIONS. “Minsky gives several examples in the Society of Mind of how one might combine primitive agents into larger agencies that can do more complex things.” https://lnkd.in/dkTGTAb View in LinkedIn

GREATER THAN THE SUM. “What is Life? One dissects a body but finds no life inside. What is Mind? One dissects a brain but finds no mind therein. Are life and mind so much more than the sum of their parts that it is useless to search for them?” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn

REDUCTIONISM. “The same applies to words like life and mind. It is foolish to use these words for describing the smallest components of living things because these words were invented to describe how larger assemblies interact.” https://lnkd.in/dA6xPFi View in LinkedIn

IMPERCEPTIBLE. “Evolution's time rate is so slow that we don't see it as intelligent, even though it finally produces wonderful things we ourselves cannot yet make.” https://lnkd.in/dYTNHMv View in LinkedIn