Minsky, Marvin - Mind As Society
Consciousness and Cosmology
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29m
Conscious intelligence may be viewed as a computer system composed of many smaller parallel processing programs. The late Marvin Minsky, Ph.D., was one of the acknowledged founders of the mathematical theory of computation, artificial intelligence, and robotics. He argues that understanding the individual as a very sophisticated machine actually affirms human dignity.
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