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	Society of Mind theory: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Society of Mind theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marvin Minsky's theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind is not a single object, but the emergent behaviour of the interaction of a large number of smaller simpler entities.
		An implication of the Society of Mind theory is that most mental functioning is unconscious, as there is no conscious awareness of the activity of most of these entities, only of their emergent behavior.
		This is similar to the theory of connectionism[?], which effectively is the same idea at a lower level of abstraction.
	www.encyclopedian.com /so/Society-of-mind-theory.html (238 words)

	Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The mind is a subject about which very much theorizing, experimenting, and expostulating has occurred in philosophy (studied under the heading philosophy of mind), psychology, and religion (where, in theology, it is often considered alongside such related notions as soul and spirit).
		The view of common sense, it seems, is opposed to a bundle theory of the mind.
		Philosophers have not infrequently bandied the phrase "mental substance," and indeed, it has been made central to the ontologies of several philosophers, including most notably Gottfried Leibniz; according to Leibniz, the monad, a "simple soul," is that in terms of which everything else in the universe was to be explained.
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	Society of Mind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Society of Mind is the book and theory of natural intelligence as written and developed by Marvin Minsky.
		The great power in viewing a mind as a society of agents, as opposed to as the consequence of some basic principle or some simple formal system, is that different agents can be based on different types of processes with different purposes, ways of representing knowledge, and methods for producing results.
		Society of Mind theory postulates reflexive monitoring agents termed B-brains to look out for unproductive activities such as possible infinite looping.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Society_of_Mind (257 words)

	George Herbert Mead [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The emergence of mind is contingent upon interaction between the human organism and its social environment; it is through participation in the social act of communication that the individual realizes her (physiological and neurological) potential for significantly symbolic behavior (i.e., thought).
		His theory of "mind, self, and society" is, in effect, a philosophy of the act from the standpoint of a social process involving the interaction of many individuals, just as his theory of knowledge and value is a philosophy of the act from the standpoint of the experiencing individual in interaction with an environment.
		Society was conceived as a voluntary association of individuals; and the aim of this association was the preservation of natural rights to such goods as life, liberty, and property.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/m/mead.htm (19314 words)

	Society of mind theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Identity Theory of Mind Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain.
		Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind A comprehensive and up-to-date collection of terms, definitions, and scholarly works on the topic of Philosophy of Mind that provides useful background material for the study of artificial intelligence theory.
		The Computational Theory of Mind The philosophical theopry that the mind is, or functions like, a computer; by Steven Horst.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Society_of_mind_theory.html (585 words)

	Mind and Society by Vilfredo Pareto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Propositions and theories have to be classified at the very outset, for classification is a first step that is almost indispensable if one would have an adequate grasp of any great number of differing objects.
		To avoid endless repetition of the words "proposition" and "theory," we shall for the moment use only the latter term; but whatever we say of "theories" should be taken as applying also to "propositions," barring specification to the contrary.
		We perceive at once that a theory is not a homogeneous entity, such as the "element" known to chemistry.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/it/pareto.htm (2688 words)

	Theory, Culture and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Theory, Culture and Society was launched in 1982 to cater for the resurgence of interest in culture in the social sciences.
		Theory, Culture and Society builds upon the heritage of the classic founders of social theory and examines the ways in which this tradition has been reshaped by a new generation of theorists.
		Theory, Culture and Society has been widely acclaimed for its innovative editorial policy, typified by its agenda-setting special issues on topics such as the fate of modernity; global culture; postmodernism; the body; ethics and difference; and love and eroticism.
	tcs.ntu.ac.uk /tcs (1864 words)

	Society of Mind theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marvin Minsky 's theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind is the product of the interaction a vast society of distinct and individually processes known as agents.
		The great power in viewing a as a society of agents as opposed as the consequence of some basic principle some simple formal system is that each can be based on a different type process with its own special kinds of languages for describing things ways to represent and methods for drawing inferences.
		Mind, Self and Society from the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
	www.freeglossary.com /Society_of_mind_theory (456 words)

	The Identity Theory of Mind
		The identity theory of mind holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain.
		The identity theory of mind is to the effect that these experiences just are brain processes, not merely correlated with brain processes.
		Armstrong, D.M. 1968a: A Materialist Theory of the Mind, London, Routledge.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/mind-identity (8254 words)

	Examining the Society of Mind
		The Society of Mind theory was born in discussions between Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert in the early 1970s at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
		The mind can be seen as the result of a sequence of teaching operations where at each stage there is a 'teacher' that teaches the 'student', and where the student becomes the teacher at the next stage, and so on.
		One of Minsky's purposes in developing the Society of Mind theory was to establish a framework which naturally incorporated both symbolic and connectionist notions, yet despite the compatible presentation Minsky gives in the Society of Mind, the debate between symbolic and connectionist approaches continues to rage to this day.
	web.media.mit.edu /~push/ExaminingSOM.html (8890 words)

	Society of Mind theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We haven't proven the whole edifice of Freudian dream theory, he says, but it seems as if Freud was on the right track.
		A review of the Society of Mind theory is available in the article Examining the Society of Mind.
		Mind, Self, and Society : From the Standpoint of a Social Behaviorist
	hallencyclopedia.com /Society_of_Mind_theory (439 words)

	Marvin Minsky -- "Story/Mind" Consultant
		In the early 1970s, Minsky and Papert began formulating a theory called The Society of Mind which combined insights from developmental child psychology with their and their students' experiences of attempting to build intelligent machines.
		The Society of Mind proposes that intelligence is the product of the managed interaction of a diverse array of agents, rather than the product of any singular mechanism.
		The Society of Mind, Simon and Schuster, 1987.
	brainop.media.mit.edu /people/minsky.html (873 words)

	MATHEMATICS, MIND, AND SOCIETY: AN ANARCHIST THEORY OF INQUIRY AND EDUCATION
		This is tricky in the sense that properly understood, theories are or engage worldviews, so they are or are integral with forms of discourse and practice, that is politics and power.
		The significance of the social fact that minds and brains are not independent, free-standing entities and that independent, free-standing individuals are illusions has not yet reached into the social worlds of education (although some progress in this direction has clearly been made among those attending this conference).
		Society is symbolically useful in my title, but does not convey the central idea I want to emphasize, that our selves are structured and re-structured, produced and re-produced, in moment-to-moment social interactions during the course of our everyday, everynight lives.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /csme/meas/plenaries/restivo.html (1177 words)

	Society of Mind theory : Society of mind theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		terms defined : Society of Mind theory : Society of mind theory
		See also: Society of mind (Computer Science)Marvin Minsky's theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind isn't a single object, but the emergent behaviour of the interaction of a large number of smaller simpler entities.
		Marvin Minsky's theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind isn't a single object, but the emergent behaviour of the interaction of a large number of smaller simpler entities.
	www.termsdefined.net /so/society-of-mind-theory.html (493 words)

	A Modular Theory of Cognition: Society of Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A Modular Theory of Cognition: Society of Mind
		Marvin Minsky, in his book The Society of Mind proposes a scheme of the same name, in which the mind is composed of many smaller processes which he calls agents.
		This theory attempts to provide a unified model of the mind, similar in scope to Newell's Unified Theory of Cognition, but with the premise that the mind's individual components lend little light on the mind as a whole; that it is only when connected and interacting that their purpose becomes clear.
	ai.eecs.umich.edu /cogarch0/common/theory/society.html (237 words)

	Mind, Self and Society
		Part III of a mini-lecture in S.I.T. A most engaging assumption of SIT is that mind, self and society are twin born [trine borne?].
		However, in mass, class, and racist societies; in conflict occasions generally, such assumptions cannot be taken for granted.
		But even when a 'teacher' is present, still there is no guarantee that mind, self and society are one and the same thing.
	uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /RED_FEATHER/lectures/010MindSelf.htm (693 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: SOCIETY OF MIND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His thesis is that our minds consist of a huge aggregation of tiny mini-minds or agents that have evolved to perform highly specific tasks.
		This holistic view of the mind's learning stages is the culmination of Minsky's study, and its insights into the developing world of computers-as-machines are matched by paradoxically intuitive glimpses of the growth of a sense of "self" through introspection, short- and long-term memory, mind-frames utilizing pictures and language.
		The "society of mind", composed as it is of a collection of simple objects, is purely reductionist in its strategy and philosophy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671657135?v=glance (2503 words)

	Society of mind (computer science) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Society of mind is the use of multiple machine 'minds,' to do processing work as separate units to develop independent results, and then combine these data to create more heuristically applicable principles.
		Though the level of this information processed is limited, it is currently possible to develop more sophisticated data processes using neural nets in a distributed fashion.
		Unlike Parallel processing, or distributed processing, however, society of mind's purpose is to draw different, but acceptable results from the same data, and then dealing with comparing these different approaches in an orderly way.
	www.city-search.org /so/society-of-mind-(computer-science).html (451 words)

	Society of Mind theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Marvin Minsky 's theory of the Society of Mind asserts that the mind is the product of the interaction of a vast society of distinct and individually simple processes known as agent s.
		Neural Darwinism Books: Minsky, Marvin; The Society of Mind ISBN 0671657135 March 15, 1988
		Cornelis Slenters on the LOTA theory of mind.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Society_of_Mind_theory.html (702 words)

	Examining the Society of Mind (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We describe some of the history behind the theory, review several of the specific mechanisms and representations that Minsky proposes, and consider related developments in Artificial Intelligence since the theory's publication.
		1 The Society of Mind--Unpublished (context) - Minsky, ---Papert - 1976
		1 Allen Newell, Unified Theories of Cognition (context) - Minsky - 1993 DBLP
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /singh04examining.html (483 words)

	Mizmoz - Philosophy Philosophy of Mind - Society And Philosophy Philosophy of Mind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		»The Identity Theory of Mind - Evaluates the theory that holds that states and processes of the mind are identical to states and processes of the brain.
		According to the Representational Theory of Mind, psychological states are to be understood as relations between agents and mental representations.
		»Panpsychism - The doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of the world which exists throughout the universe; from the Stanford Encyclopedia by William Seager.
	www.mizmoz.com /dir/Society/Philosophy/Philosophy_of_Mind (1353 words)

	Autistic Society >> Forums >> Questions & Answers >> question about theory of mind
		I read that autistic people lack " a theory of mind", namely that they can't conceive that they have a mind and you have a mind and that your minds may not be feeling the same thing.
		I myself seem to feel like I don't even exist and I was wondering if lacking a theory of mind means you feel like you don't exist.
		I'd just like to know if my feeling of not existing and the suffering that comes along with it comes from a lack of theory of mind which is an autistic "symptom" or if it was caused by environmental things in my childhood.
	www.autisticsociety.org /postt296.html (731 words)

	pushblog: February 2005
		Every now and then someone asks me why there haven't been many implementations of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory of intelligence; instead, most AI people seem to use homogenous planners or inference engines and fairly uniform knowledge representation schemes, and these methods are often reasonably effective.
		It could be that the systems we've been building so far are simply too small to need the kinds of organizational principles that are described in the Society of Mind.
		Only now, when we are beginning to accumulate knowledge bases with millions or even billions of items, intricately represented and capable of being combined in many ways to produce many inferences, that society-like organizational principles are needed.
	pushsingh.blogspot.com /2005_02_01_pushsingh_archive.html (275 words)

	Neural Darwinism - Wikipedia
		Neural Darwinism describes the theory that consciousness can be explained by Darwinian selection and evolution of neural states.
		The Theory of Neuronal Group Selection" (Basic Books, New York 1987).
		It has been suggested that Friedrich Hayek had earlier proposed a similar idea in his book "The Sensory Order : An Inquiry into the Foundations of Theoretical Psychology", published in 1952.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neural_Darwinism (141 words)

	Agent-based programming environments - Michael Travers
		The initial inspiration for this search was Alan Kay's Vivarium project, which sought to use living systems as paradigms for programming languages and to develop software environments in which young programmers could develop models of animal behavior.
		I was additionally inspired by Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory, which drew a picture of the complex machinery of the mind as composed of interacting functional parts, or agents, that functioned together in a decentralized fashion to produce intelligent behavior.
		I sought to turn the impressionistic ideas of Society of Mind into an agent-based programming system that would be flexible yet simple enough to be used by novices.
	alumni.media.mit.edu /~mt/childs-play-pp.html (942 words)

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