Posted by
Jochen Fromm-4 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-society-of-mind-tp585264p587230.html
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/896/814Interesting. 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.
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> 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
>
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