The Society of Mind

by Marvin Minsky

1985

Touchstone Edition - Simon & Schuster Inc 1988

ISBN 0-671-60740-5

ISBN 0-671-65713-5 Pbk

Chapter 1 Prologue

Chapter 2 Wholes and parts

Chapter 3 Conflict and compromise

Chapter 4 The self

Chapter 5 Individuality

Chapter 6 Insight and introspection

Chapter 7 Problems and goals

Chapter 8 A theory of memory

Chapter 9 Summaries

Chapter 10 Papert's principle

Chapter 11 The shape of space

Chapter 12 Learning meaning

Chapter 13 Seeing and believing

Chapter 14 Reformulation

Chapter 15 Consciousness and memory

Chapter 16 Emotion

Chapter 17 Development

Chapter 18 Reasoning

Chapter 19 Words and ideas

Chapter 20 Context and ambiguity

Chapter 21 Trans-frames

Chapter 22 Expression

Chapter 23 Comparisons

Chapter 24 Frames

Chapter 25 Frame-arrays

Chapter 26 Language-frames

Chapter 27 Censors and jokes

Chapter 28 The mind and the world

Chapter 29 The realms of thought

Chapter 30 Mental models

Appendix

Postscript and acknowledgment

Comments

Index