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“A thing or idea seems meaningful only when we have several different ways to represent it — different perspectives and different associations.”

Marvin Minsky

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)
Context: What is the difference between merely knowing (or remembering, or memorizing) and understanding?... A thing or idea seems meaningful only when we have several different ways to represent it — different perspectives and different associations.... Then we can turn it around in our minds, so to speak: however it seems at the moment, we can see it another way and we never come to a full stop. In other words, we can 'think' about it. If there were only one way to represent this thing or idea, we would not call this representation thinking.

Way , Idea

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”

Marvin Minsky
People , Way , Problem , Science

“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”

Marvin Minsky

In Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program (2005) by Rebecca Herold, p. 101

Way , Understanding , Learning

“Hearing music is like viewing scenery and… when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.”

Marvin Minsky

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

Music , Way

“Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of "cognitive censors" to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past.”

Marvin Minsky

Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)

Way , Past , Personality

“The way the mathematics game is played, most variations lie outside the rules, while music can insist on perfect canon or tolerate a casual accompaniment.”

Marvin Minsky

Music, Mind, and Meaning (1981)

Lie , Music , Way , Game

“We shall envision the mind (or brain) as composed of many partially autonomous "agents"—as a "Society" of smaller minds. …It is easiest to think about partial states that constrain only agents within a single Division. …(we suggest) the local mechanisms for resolving conflicts could be the precursors of what we know later as reasoning”

Marvin Minsky

useful ways to combine different fragments of knowledge.
K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)

Way , Knowledge , Thinking

“Get the mind into the (partial) state that solved the old problem; then it might handle the new problem in the "same way."”

Marvin Minsky

K-Linesː A Theory of Memory (1980)

Way , Problem

“I suspect our human "thinking processes" often "break down," but you rarely notice anything's wrong, because your systems so quickly switch you to think in different ways, while the systems that failed are repaired or replaced.”

Marvin Minsky book The Emotion Machine

The Emotion Machine (2006)

Way , Thinking

“We still remain prone to doctrines, philosophies, faiths, and beliefs that spread through the populations of entire civilizations. It is hard to imagine any foolproof ways to protect ourselves from such infections. …the best we can do is to try to educate our children to learn more skills of critical thinking and methods of scientific verification.”

Marvin Minsky book The Emotion Machine

The Emotion Machine (2006)

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