I guess you mean the following article from AI Magazine: >From Society to Landscape: Alternative Metaphors for AI http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/viewFile/896/814
Interesting. I have read "The society of Mind" a few years ago - at least large parts of it - and I don't remember that Minsky's society is in fact a bureaucratic hierarchy. According to Max Weber, a bureaucracy is the most efficient form of organization, but I don't think the mind works that way. -J. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prof David West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> 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 computational falsework (a > framework erected around a bridge to support it while concrete is being > poured), the second part dealing with alternative metaphors of mind. > > One of the metaphors I talked about was Minsky's society - which was not > a society at all - it was a bureaucratic hierarchy! At that time Minsky > was adamantly opposed to the very idea of emergence and Society was > supposed to be a way to get to intelligence without emergence - but he > snuck in a homunculus around chapter three to make the whole thing work. > > The only metaphor, at least then, that had any room for emotions, pain, > pleasure, etc. was Bergland's gland/brain chemistry/whole body model. > > davew > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
