The Emotion Machine
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The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind [1] is a book by cognitive scientist Marvin Lee Minsky. The book is a sequel to Minsky's earlier book Society of Mind.
Minsky argues that emotions are different ways to think that our mind uses to increase our intelligence. He challenges the distinction between emotions and other kinds of thinking.
Outline
Minsky outlines the book as follows[2]:
- "We are born with many mental resources."
- "We learn from interacting with others."
- "Emotions are different Ways to Think."
- "We learn to think about our recent thoughts."
- "We learn to think on multiple levels."
- "We accumulate huge stores of commonsense knowledge."
- "We switch among different Ways to Think."
- "We find multiple was to represent things."
- "We build multiple models of ourselves."
- ^ Minsky, Marvin (2006). The Emotion Machine. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-7663-9.
- ^ p 7.
Authors Prepublication Draft
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Falling in Love
- Chapter 2. ATTACHMENTS AND GOALS
- Chapter 3. FROM PAIN TO SUFFERING
- Chapter 4. CONSCIOUSNESS
- Chapter 5. LEVELS OF MENTAL ACTIVITIES
- Chapter 6. COMMON SENSE
- Chapter 7. Thinking.
- Chapter 8. Resourcefulness.
- Chapter 9. The Self.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
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