Marvin Minsky: Mind As Society (excerpt) - Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove

NOTE: This is an excerpt from a 30-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2mminsky.html

Conscious intelligence may be viewed as a computer system composed of many smaller parallel processing programs. Marvin Minsky, Ph.D., is one of the acknowledged founders of the mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He argues that understanding the individual as a very sophisticated machine actually affirms human dignity.

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• Marvin Minsky
• cybernetics
• consciousness
• computer
• artificial intelligence

[Scofield0085]

Minsky is just special

[orthant]

The best computer scientists are mathematicians. Minsky, John McCarthy , Don Knuth, etc. are all mathematicians.

[zatoichiable]

That last part of what he said really buffles me.

[minchiolo1234]

@orthant: I'm a computer scientist, and I'm very strongly against software patents. Most of us are. But about being brusque and intellectually arrogant yes, I have to admit you're right. It may be that we're less accustomed to dealing with people, because we deal with machines so much.

[orthant]

Well, what I really need to say is that we don't need computer science. Today's CS people believe that they are the most brilliant beings and are usually arrogant and selfish. For a long time, I tried to understand why they behave like that. My conclusion is that they have to study too much and have no time to understand why they are doing this and that. They are copying mathematicians' ideas and claims "patents"!! I mean those "computer science people". Not von Neumann. :-))

[orthant]

@HitchSlapYouSon How did you know?  Even if you praise God, atonal music works. Rocks.

[Neueregel]

amazing stuff !!

[woo216]

lol his smart but im smarter