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| Mental states: Mental states are internal states of mind that include thoughts, feelings, emotions, sensations, and perceptions. They are subjective experiences that cannot be directly observed by others. See also Brain states, Brain, Thoughts, Thinking, Cognition, Consciousness, Perception, Sensation, Emotions, Behavior._____________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 Mental States - Dictionary of Arguments
I 151 Mental States/Artificial Intelligence/Minsky: Why, for example, do we become less conscious of some things when we become more conscious of others? Surely this is because some resource is approaching some limitation — and I'll argue that it is our limited capacity to keep good records of our recent thoughts. What happens when we try to think about our most recent thoughts? We examine our recent memories. But these were already involved in what we were thinking about — and any self-inspecting probe is prone to change just what it's looking at. Then the system is likely to break down. It is hard enough to describe something with a stable shape; it is even harder to describe something that changes its shape before our eyes; (…). >Consciousness/Minsky._____________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 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-29