num_pages: 336
description: Marvin Minsky -- one of the fathers of computer science and cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT -- gives a revolutionary answer to the age-old "How does the mind work?"Minsky brilliantly portrays the mind as a "society" of tiny components that are themselves mindless. Mirroring his theory, Minsky boldly casts The Society of Mind as an intellectual puzzle whose pieces are assembled along the way. Each chapter -- on a self-contained page -- corresponds to a piece in the puzzle. As the pages turn, a unified theory of the mind emerges, like a mosaic. Ingenious, amusing, and easy to read, The Society of Mind is an adventure in imagination.
language: English
title: The Society of Mind
titlecomplete: The Society of Mind
genres: Psychology, Brain, Neuroscience, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Computer Science, Technology, Programming, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3259
publisher: Simon & Schuster