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
inquiry certainty acquire
One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry.
years ideas childhood
Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.
mind
An ethicist is someone who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.
music personal-knowledge listening
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
brain machines meat
The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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.
mind rationality
In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.
years bird evolution
Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that–where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.
levels hundred process
How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
knowledge way understood
If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
brain mind
Minds are simply what brains do.
people fiction way
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
intelligent space problem
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
moving-on vision evolution
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.