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.

-Marvin Minsky

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Good Theories Of The Mind Must Span

Marvin Minsky

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.

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This Is A Tricky Domain Because, Unlike Simple Arithmetic, To Solve A Calculus Problem - And In Particular To Perform Integration - You Have To Be Smart About Which Integration Technique Should Be Used: Integration By Partial Fractions, Integration By Parts, And So On.

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