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The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
by Marvin Minsky
from Simon & Schuster

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Worth the read.
  Minsky presents interesting new ideas on understanding ourselves. It makes sense that the mind, like the body, may seem simple on the outside but is amazingly complex on the inside.

• Very Interesting subject. Good discussion points.
  Like all books on human intelligence also this one is obviously speculation. But it is very helpful speculation if you are interested in the subject. Not all is simple reading especially if you have not been exposed to it before. My own opinion was well advanced by reading this book and I too have agreements and disagreements. Minsky properly suggests that looking at the mind in a too fragmented way will stop us from understanding it. I too see the mind as a complex whole of concepts, processes, and most of... more info

• I am not its target audience
  I put this book on the shelf last night about 2/3 done, it will not be finished. I have a back ground in controls engineering and physics simulation, and much of what the author talks about is very similar to these subjects (feedback-control, gain schedualling, non-linear systems, constrained optimization, multi agent interactions etc) yet there is absolutely no use of this body of knowledge. Also the 'style' used in the presented flow diagrams is pain full.
  From the word 'machine' in the title I had... more info

• Disappointing and too "Textbook-like'
  Several other reviews do a good job at describing the content of the book. In contrast I'd like to focus on my reactions to it.
  I have read about conciousness before -- including the works of Hofstadler and Penrose ("Emperor's New Mind"). I expected "The Emotion Machine" to be a similar work, exploring the issues of conciousness and the mind in a way that would stimutae further independent thought and ideas about an critical scientific/philosphical issue that mankind and science has been grappling with... more info

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