“What magical trick makes us intelligent? The trick is that there is no trick. The power of intelligence stems from our vast diversity, not from any single, perfect principle.”

—  Marvin Minsky , book Society of Mind

Source: The Society of Mind (1987), p. 308

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American cognitive scientist 1927–2016

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