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Thinking: Thinking is a cognitive process that involves mental activities such as reasoning, problem solving, decision making, imagination and conceptualization. These operations enable individuals to process information, make sense of their experiences and interact with the world around them.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Marvin Minsky on Thinking - Dictionary of Arguments

Münch III 99
Thinking/Minsky: I do not believe that sentences must lead to visual images.
III 100
Thinking/Bartlett: thinking is biologically older than the image forming process. But although younger, and higher developed, it does not supplant the method of images.
Thinking increases the risk of remaining attached to generalities.
>Generality
, >Generalization.
III 125
Thinking/Minsky: different viewpoints usually follow each other.
III 130
"Proximity"/simulation/Minsky: such terms are too important for our everyday life to give them up because they cannot be axiomatized.
>Everyday language, >Simulation.
Thinking/Minsky: thinking cannot get far without conclusions.

Marvin Minsky, “A framework for representing knowledge” in: John Haugeland (Ed) Mind, design, Montgomery 1981, pp. 95-128
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Minsky I 64
Thinking/communication/Minsky: Rich meaning-networks (…) give you many different ways to go: if you can't solve a problem one way, you can try another. True, too many indiscriminate connections will turn a mind to mush. But well-connected meaning-structures let you turn ideas around in your mind, to consider alternatives and envision things from many perspectives until you find one that works. And that's what we mean by thinking!
>Meaning/Minsky.
Understanding/Minsky: The secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the real meaning of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
>Meaning/Minsky, >Communication/Minsky.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Minsky I
Marvin Minsky
The Society of Mind New York 1985

Minsky II
Marvin Minsky
Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003

Mü III
D. Münch (Hrsg.)
Kognitionswissenschaft Frankfurt 1992

Minsky II
Marvin Minsky
Semantic Information Processing Cambridge, MA 2003


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