A MIT professor is exploring this idea ( Read more... )

Kes: Oo, useful term: "ambiguous sense data"--I used to get a lot of that when I was low-vision, it was one of the things that often resulted in fun hallucinations ( Read more... )

Kes: I attended Minsky's lectures on this during my final semester at MIT, and you can, as noted below, read it online ( Read more... )

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During last week's Society of Mind class Bob Hearn demoed this nifty program he wrote based on Minsky's book Society of Mind. The description of the program alone sounded interesting, but it turns out, if you have a Mac, you can try it out yourself. Here is Bob Hearn's description, from his web page ( Read more... )

I'll know if I've been accepted into this class by the end of the weekend, but for now, here is the homework
reading assignment: Marvin Minsky The Emotion Machine
which you can read on Minsky's home page at
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/
chapters 4 and 5, then go back to chapter 1

Posted to the MIT World newsletter ( Read more... )