One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. Marvin Minsky More Quotes by Marvin Minsky More Quotes From Marvin Minsky Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981. Marvin Minsky real mind world 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. Marvin Minsky moved-on moving-on vision How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use. Marvin Minsky intelligent book thinking Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined, reformulated and "represented." We like to believe that these fragments have meanings in themselves - apart from the great webs of structure from which they emerge - and indeed this illusion is valuable to us qua thinkers - but not to us as psychologists - because it leads us to think that expressible knowledge is the first thing to study. Marvin Minsky believe knowledge thinking Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener. Marvin Minsky personal-knowledge music listening General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. Marvin Minsky people way fiction An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind. Marvin Minsky mind 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. Marvin Minsky childhood years ideas 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. Marvin Minsky evolution bird years The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves. Marvin Minsky activity making-changes brain If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all. Marvin Minsky understood way knowledge We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things. Marvin Minsky compare turns quality We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston. Marvin Minsky robots vision action To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, "What caused the Universe to exist?" Marvin Minsky universe silly But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. Marvin Minsky astrology discovery science Everything is similar if you're willing to look far out of focus. Marvin Minsky willing focus looks Eventually, robots will make everything. Marvin Minsky robots A couple of hundred years from now, maybe [science fiction writers] Isaac Asimov and Fred Pohl will be considered the important philosophers of the twentieth century, and the professional philosophers will almost all be forgotten, because they're just shallow and wrong, and their ideas aren't very powerful. Marvin Minsky couple powerful years When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision, he generated a lot of excitement, but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation; he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems. Marvin Minsky mit excitement vision By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen. Marvin Minsky jurassic-park light race
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