Frases de Marvin Minsky

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“Es ridículo vivir cien años y sólo ser capaces de recordar treinta millones de bytes. O sea, menos de lo que cabe en un CD. La condición humana se hace más obsoleta con cada minuto que pasa.”

“Estamos tan acostumbrados a la adoración de lo inusual que olvidamos lo poco que sabemos sobre las maravillas del pensamiento ordinario.”

“Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious.”

“How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.”

“We usually say that one must first understand simpler things. But what if feelings and viewpoints are the simpler things?”

“Questioning one's own "top-level" goals always reveals the paradox-oscillation of ultimate purpose. How could one decide that a goal is worthwhile — unless one already knew what it is that is worthwhile?”