The Emotion Machine

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See my essay on Jokes, at web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt

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See the extensive discussion in William James’ text, “The Varieties of Religious Experience.”

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Sigmund Freud, in A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, 1920, p. 259.

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For more details of this episode, see §4.5 of SoM.

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www.srichinmoy.org/html/library/questions_answers/consciousness_qa.htm

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Fodor, J. A., Can there be a science of mind? Times Literary Supplement. July 3, 1992, pp5-7.

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Chapter 2 of Conversations with Neil’s Brain, REF

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In comp.ai.philosophy, 14 Dec. 1994

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, 1748

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In sci.psychology.consciousness, 15 Jun 96.

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There are important exceptions to this. It would seem that experts like J.S. Bach developed ways to accomplish more multiple, yet still similar goals in parallel. However, as their skills improve, most such experts become less and less able to tell the rest of us how they do them.

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William James discussed this extensively. See: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/jimmy11.htm . Several other more modern ideas about this are developed in Daniel Dennett’s 1991 book, Consciousness Explained.

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So, despite a popular intuition, research on parallel processing has shown that such systems are frequently prone to end up accomplishing less for the same amount of computational power Nevertheless, if that cost can be borne, then the final result may come sooner!

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See Parallel Distributed Processing, Rumelhart, D., J. McClelland et al., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 1986. See also my discussion of ‘opacity’ in http://web.media.mit.edu/~mi nsky/papers/SymbolicVs.Connectionist.html. For some limitations of the most popular forms of neural networks, see [Perceptrons.][Ref.]