Marvin MinskyThinkers

An Expert is someone who rarely slips up and this is because, importantly, he knows what not to do. Competence, one might say, is just as much based on knowing which actions not to take.

A Game is definable as prototype frames, among which some frame-shifts are easy, but others involve more strain.

A Language game is clever notion in that it points to the fact that a word like 'game' points to a somewhat diffuse "system" of prototype frames, among which some frame-shifts are easy, but others involve more strain.

Learning to learn is one of the things that we cannot learn from experience. . .. our brains are already innately endowed with machinery to help us "to compare, to connect, or to separate" objects so that we can represent them as existing in space.

The Mind is a system for dealing with conflicts between our instinctive and acquired ideas.

Society of mind is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Television is a thing which, if it were actually good, it would be the end of everything we know.