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“Only the surface of reason is rational. I don't mean that understanding emotion is easy, only that understanding reason is probably harder.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious.”

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

“How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.”

Marvin Minsky book Society of Mind

Source: The Society of Mind (1987), Ch.1

“We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?”

K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)

“Questioning one's own "top-level" goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile — unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?”

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)