The Emotion Machine
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind is a book by cognitive scientist Marvin Lee Minsky.
The book is a sequel to Minskys earlier book Society of Mind.
Minsky argues that human brain evolved to use different ways of thinking depending on the situation.
(Simon & Schuster: 2006, ISBN 0978-0743276634)
Outline
Minsky outlines the book as follows:
- Person is born with many kinds of resources (abilities)
- Person learns from Imprimers (caregivers) and friends
- Person learns what we ought not to do
- Person can reflect upon what we are thinking about
- Person can predict the effects of imagined actions
- Person uses huge stories of common knowledge
- Person can switches between different ways to think
- Person develops ways to learn very quickly
- Person construct many models of ourselves yet maintain unity of self
External Links (Draft)
- [1] - Introduction
- [2] - Chapter 1. Falling in Love
- [3] - Chapter 2. ATTACHMENTS AND GOALS
- [4] - Chapter 3. FROM PAIN TO SUFFERING
- [5] - Chapter 4. CONSCIOUSNESS
- [6] - Chapter 5. LEVELS OF MENTAL ACTIVITIES
- [7] - Chapter 6. COMMON SENSE
- [8] - Chapter 7. Thinking.
- [9] - Chapter 8. Resourcefulness.
- [10] - Chapter 9. The Self.
- [11] - BIBLIOGRAPHY