3. Cognitive Architectures

MIT 6.868J The Society of Mind, Fall 2011
Instructor: Marvin Minsky

In this lecture, students use readings of M.A. Bozarth and Carl Sagan to discuss pleasure systems in the brain and human problem solving.

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

[johnnyappleseed]

Marvin was 84 years old in this video, if anyone is curious

[GrahamBessellieu]

1:11 ~ Kinds of Problems
23:41 ~ Ways to Think
29:52 ~ Wernicke's Area
40:25 ~ Goal of A.I. ?
1:31:28 ~ Levels of Representation
1:35:04 ~ Evolution & Hierarchy

[samaelrising]

"Prioritizing faulty signals". The story of my life.

[annjuurinen]

What a remarkable mind. Someone I could listen to for centuries.

[fmdj]

What a wonderful lecture by a wonderful professor! I could, and will, listen to him for hours! I hope I can be that cheerful when I'm his age... Hell even right now!

[Mommyandtux]

The world lost such a great man andngrest scientist when Mr. Minsky passed..

Im grateful though that he lived and worked into his 80s.

[TLabsLLC-AI-Development]

I've been listening to this series for years. It's only just begun to ring different. Which is weird to experience.

[zarathustrasmonky]

I came to see if he was eating a tortilla in the thumbnail.

[StopFear]

This video has that very good "unintentional ASMR" quality. I do not know why people call it ASMR as ASMR means that you are supposed to have goosebumps or excitement from it (the weird people) because this man's voice is like a stereotypical wise grandpa voice. You may not understand or pay attention to what he says specifically, but you know that his voice can put you in a calm and peaceful state and you could fall asleep listening to it.

[AmeerFazal]

Like always Marvin Minsky at his best!

[sorinichim]

Great people have short lives on this Earth. One life isn't enough to change this crooked world. I hope his students fallowed his path.

[wdacademia]

The "last resort" method could maybe be called "subconscious deferral".

[EranM]

Living till 400 with the abilities of a 20-40 years old sounds good.

[robertlemiesz]

3 lectures in and I still have no idea what this class is about... or even really the department its in

[lkd]

"solving puzzles": why do nerds think that it was life is all about? Problematising, not solving problems, that is what makes life interesting!

[justinmacosky]

I would NEVER pass these classes. I space out by the time we get to 2 minutes in… #asmrforlife

[nigelwan]

1:11:54 surely the aposterior probability distribution could be updated right?

[hegerwalter]

Chapter 4, in case it is not showing up

[sam]

1:19:00 the guy that studied ants was E. O. Wilson

[pmcate]

@1:11:34 "if you don't get it the first time you'll never get it" I don't see why that's true