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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: More on Minsky on Mind(s)
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Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 02:10:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 02:10:19 1987
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How well respected is Minsky among cognitive psychologists?  I was rather
surprised to see him putting the stamp of approval on Drexler's "Engines of
Creation", since the psychology is so amazingly shallow; e.g., reducing
identity to a matter of memory, ignoring effects of the glands and digestion
on personality.  Drexler had apparently read no actual psychology, only AI
literature and neuro-linguistics, and in my opinion his approach is very
anti-humanistic.  (Much like that of hard sf authors.)

Is this true in general in the AI world?  Is it largely incestuous, without
reference to scientific observations of psychic function?  In short, does it
remain almost entirely speculative with respect to higher-order cognition?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Electronic Village Idiot
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