The Society of Mind. "270 brilliantly original essays on... how the mind works."

Publication TypeBook
AuthorsMinsky, Marvin
SourceSimon & Schuster, Inc., New York, NY (1985)
Keywordsbibliographic
Abstract

The Society of Mind. "270 brilliantly original essays on... how the mind works." Contents follow: Prologue, Wholes and Parts, Conflict and Compromise, The Self, Individuality, Insight and Introspection, Problems and Goals, A Theory of Memory, Summaries, Papert's Principle, The Shape of Space, Learning Meaning, Seeing and Believing, Reformulation, Consciousness and Memory, Emotion, Development, Reasoning, Words and Ideas, Context and Ambiguity, Trans-Frames, Expression, Comparisons, Frames, Frame- Arrays, Language-Frames, Censors and Jokes, The Mind and The World, The Realms of Thought, Mental Models, Appendix, Postscript and Acknowledgment, Glossary and Bibliography, and Index.