Research Catalog

Title

The emotion machine : commensense thinking, artificial intelligence, and the future of the human mind / Marvin Minsky.

Author

Minsky, Marvin, 1927-2016.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2006], ©2006.

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Description

387 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Emotions and cognition
• Human information processing

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-372) and index.

Contents

1. Falling in love -- 2. Attachments and goals -- 3. From pain to suffering -- 4. Consciousness -- 5. Levels of mental activities -- 6. Common sense -- 7. Thinking -- 8. Resourcefulness -- 9. The self.

ISBN

• 0743276639
• 9780743276634

LCCN

2006044367

OCLC

• ocm70122576
• 70122576
• SCSB-5927462

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries