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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.”

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Marvin Minsky

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.”

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Marvin Minsky

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.”

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Marvin Minsky könyv Society of Mind

Forrás: 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?”

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Marvin Minsky

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?”

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Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious (1980)