The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition

by Marvin Minsky (Author)

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In this mind-expanding book, scientific pioneer Marvin Minsky continues his groundbreaking research, offering a fascinating new model for how our minds work. He argues persuasively that emotions, intuitions, and feelings are not distinct things, but different ways of thinking.

By examining these different forms of mind activity, Minsky says, we can explain why our thought sometimes takes the form of carefully reasoned analysis and at other times turns to emotion. He shows how our minds progress from simple, instinctive kinds of thought to more complex forms, such as consciousness or self-awareness. And he argues that because we tend to see our thinking as fragmented, we fail to appreciate what powerful thinkers we really are. Indeed, says Minsky, if thinking can be understood as the step-by-step process that it is, then we can build machines -- artificial intelligences -- that not only can assist with our thinking by thinking as we do but have the potential to be as conscious as we are.

Eloquently written, The Emotion Machine is an intriguing look into a future where more powerful artificial intelligences await.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition (November 13, 2007)
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A Remarkable Book

July 29, 2015

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Marvin Minsky, along with a small group of scientists, coined the term, "artificial intelligence." He also wrote Society of Mind, a tour de force that paved the way for thinking about getting machines to think. The Emotion Machine, his more recent work, presents ideas that shake up the field of psychology. His suggestions about the ways in which emotions "cascade" as a series of logical events in response to life circumstances offer a picture that is both physiologically and cognitively rational. Beyond suggesting what machines can accomplish, Minsky's suggestions are highly innovative regarding the field of psychology.These topics, in addition to many others spanning varied fields, make the book amazing.

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Great interesting read. Expansive.

February 23, 2018

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Interesting read on a theoretical framework for Artificial Intelligence and Emotions. Expansive theory is quite invigorating. Good look into Psychology and epistemology of the mind.

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Answered my curiosity on how we think

July 27, 2015

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A pleasant read, this book theorizes on how human mind works, this provides a blue print to build or analyze future ai systems

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Interesting read with convoluted structure

June 24, 2018

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The book poses some interesting questions and attempts to offer possible explanations but it uses a format of confronting arguments that makes it hard to follow.

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Excellent book on thinking machines - but misleading title

June 9, 2007

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I agree with the reviewer who noted how odd it was that a book titled "The Emotion Machine" does not discuss Joseph LeDoux, even if only to refute him. But I think that the problem is with the title, not the book. I found many of Minsky's insights very helpful - it is a very good book about how machines think. And if you are not a dualist, then those insights apply to people too. The book is very well organized and clearly written, and helps you think about thinking. I especially enjoyed his discussion of qualia (although he does not use the term), and why he thinks it is not quite the problem that so many philosophers want to make it.

Minsky's main take on emotions is that emotional states are not fundamentally different from other types of thinking, and that the entire dicotomy of rationality v. emotion is misleading. He prefers to view them all as different ways of thinking - of utilizing various mental resources at one's disposal, some conscious and some not. He organizes his discussion of difficult material very well, but I wish there was more grounding in the underlying neural anatomy of human emotion.

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A good follow up to Minsky's Society of Mind

July 19, 2015

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A good follow up to Minsky's Society of Mind. Provides for a great read of concepts formulated across 60 years of AI research.

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March 28, 2016

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very good

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Food for Thought

February 5, 2013

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Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence research, conveys a clear understanding of how the brain recognizes and interprets the world around us. He first shows how tasks that may seem simple are actually difficult for a computer to perform because they require an understanding of many details and facts about the situation. Then, he explains how the brain must be organized in order to rapidly categorize sensory input, compare with memories of prior experiences, and select methods or actions to accomplish the desired result.

This book discusses many interesting ideas about human minds in general and provides a plausible framework for understanding our own thought processes.

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Marvin Minsky contributed more ideas to unraveling the mysteries of the mind why anyone who came before him.Read more

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Instructive and interesting, but somewhat reductionist

The late professor Minsky's depiction of human emotions as "ways to think" is instructive and interesting, but does not fulfill one's natural intuition about processes of...Read more

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One Of Marvin Minsky's Finest

a great work by the late Minsky; very helpful points of view for developing computational emotional responses in my A.I. work.

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AI book from the AI lab: a classic

Great book from a great thinker .... but is it really about emotion?? Bound to challenge your beliefs and broaden your thinking

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