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Loading... The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and…by Marvin Minsky
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Veteran AI man Minsky ruminates on the mental architecture of the human animal, building on his earlier "society of mind" ideas. Not at all iconoclastic, and some chapters are quite bland and superficial. www.emotionmachine.net An effort to understand human emotions. Is it possible from this ideas to emulate emotions for a robot, what for?. How can we exploit the positive side of our emotions in a robot?. no reviews | add a review
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The Emotion Machine explains how our minds work, how they progress from simple kinds of thought to more complex forms that enable us to reflect on ourselves -- what most people refer to as consciousness, or self-awareness. Unlike other broad theories of the mind, this book proceeds in a step-by-step fashion that draws on detailed and specific examples. It shows that thinking -- even higher-level thinking -- can be broken down into a series of specific actions. From emotional states to goals and attachments and on to consciousness and awareness of self, we can understand the process of thinking in all its intricacy. And once we understand thinking, we can build machines -- artificial intelligences -- that can assist with our thinking, machines that can follow the same thinking patterns that we follow and that can think as we do. These humanlike thinking machines would also be emotion machines -- just as we are.
This is a brilliant book that challenges many ideas about thinking and the mind. It is as insightful and provocative as it is original, the fruit of a lifetime spent thinking about thinking.
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