Epstein Secrets

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an agent that can sense a certain stimulus, yet build no agent that can re- produce it. How could such a mind learn that the first half subject of Beethoven's Fifth—call it A— prefigures the second half—call it B? It is simple: an agent A that recognizes A sends a message to another agent B, built to re

Marvin Minsky Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Why Do We Like Music? Why do we like music? Our culture immerses us in it for hours each day, and everyone knows how it touc

in an instant. The Long Now project, then, was like one of those carefully isolated arctic freezers, where samples of essential grains and DNA from Beethoven’s hair and Einstein’s brain are sunk and iced against the godforbid day in which our basic feedstock or a chunk of humanity has been wiped out by acc

empt of his to show how machines, even simple ones, might seduce us with both brains and looks. The effect of a giant tinkertoy pile sitting there at The Massachusets Institute of Technology had to make you giggle, even as your mind boggled at the fact that this heap of sticks, strings and dials was beating you again and again ata child’s