When1: 1968
When2: 1985
Who: Marvin Minsky [Minsky, Marvin]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Semantic Information Processing [1968: editor]; Society of Mind [1985]
Detail: He lived 1927 to ?. Systems have interacting subsystems {agent} that perform actions for whole system. Agents take input and produce output. Systems perform actions for makers. Agents can restore other agents to previous states {K-line}. Brain agents {polyneme} can initiate processes in other agencies, which use learning and memory to act on signals. Agents can trigger other agents with unknown learned behaviors to respond, like triggering memory. Agents can cause agents with known fixed behaviors to act in coordinated ways {isonome}. They activate short-term memory in other agencies and coordinate activities. Similar temporary agents {pronome} hold and move mental-state active fragments. Agents can act directly on outside world. Knowledge-agent {microneme} combinations activate word agents. Agents can be forms {frame}. Form nodes can hold lower agent types. Nodes have default agents.
People can mistake failure of imagination for insight into necessity {philosophers' syndrome}.
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