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"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 MinskyInnate sentic detectors could help by teaching children about their ow — Marvin Minsky
"Innate sentic detectors could help by teaching children about their own affective states. For if distinct signals arouse specific states, the child can associate those signals with those states. Just knowing that such states exist, that is, having symbols for them, is half the battle."
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
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Marvin Minsky was an American mathematician who did research in cognitive and computer science aspects of artificial intelligence (AI). After three years as a Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Minsky joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958 and spent the rest of his career at that institution. There, he co-founded MIT's AI laboratory, among other
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