Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied; fast, for the fleeting weeks and months of childhood; and in between, the centuries of growth of our ideas through history.


Society Of Mind (ed. Simon and Schuster, 1988) - ISBN: 9780671657130

Marvin Minsky Quotes

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied;...

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied;...

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied;...

Good theories of the mind must span at least three different scales of time: slow, for the billions of years in which our brains have survivied;...