, and as we doit, machines will be more and more like people. It will be a gradual process, and that’s been happening. This is not so different from Marvin Minsky’s Society of Mind theory, which holds that mind is a collection of agents, each one taking care of a particular aspect of intelligence, and communicati

d out separately rather than dynamically coupled, minimizing “cognitive synergy” effects. e DUAL [NK04] is the most impressive system to come out of Marvin Minsky’s “Society of Mind” paradigm. It features a population of agents, each of which combines symbolic and connectionist representation, self-organizing to