Post #2821016
2026-04-16 13:46 UTC
Many years ago, Marvin Minsky came to the lab where I was working and gave a short talk about his “society of mind" concept. At the end of the talk, someone asked him what kind of representation he thought that the brain used for concepts.
(This was in the days of symbolic AI, and everyone was high on LISP and PROLOG, so the idea that the brain might have a formal representation of concepts didn't seem questionable or absurd).
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@angusm@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 13:49
Minsky responded that the brain was basically an evolutionary kludge, and so he thought the brain used a little bit of everything. He named a handful of the then-popular formalisms for knowledge representation, trotting out a list that ended with “… and Conceptual Dependency Notation.” 3/