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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 12:59 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The society of mind
The very first paper I published - too many years ago - in AI Magazine,
then the flagship of the AI publication world - was a two part article,
first part critiquing the prevailing
Can we describe the mind as a society of agents?
Marvin Minsky has written a book about the topic, and
Steven Pinker speculates about it in How the Mind
works. How would the basic emotions we pain/displeasure
and joy/pleasure look like? How does self-consciousness
fit into this picture?
I have
The very first paper I published - too many years ago - in AI Magazine,
then the flagship of the AI publication world - was a two part article,
first part critiquing the prevailing computational falsework (a
framework erected around a bridge to support it while concrete is being
poured), the
