Marvin Minsky Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

  Marvin Minsky

  Moving On, Vision, Moved On

• Speed is what distinguishes intelligence. No bird discovers how to fly: evolution used a trillion bird-years to 'discover' that – where merely hundreds of person-years sufficed.

  Marvin Minsky

  Years, Bird, Evolution

  "Communication with Alien Intelligence". Published in "Extraterrestrials: Science and Alien Intelligence" (Edward Regis, Ed.), web.media.mit.edu. 1985.

• The nature of mind: much of its power seems to stem from just the messy ways its agents cross-connect. ...it's only what we must expect from evolution's countless tricks.

  Marvin Minsky

  Mind, Agents, Way

  Marvin Minsky (1988). “Society Of Mind”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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