[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Charles Bennett]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Patrick Coskren wrote:

> On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:05 AM, LuKreme wrote:
>>
>> The trouble was, when they examined his swing using super slow-mo
>> capture, he wasn't doing it.  He THOUGHT he was doing it.  He was
>> certainly taught to do it, but somewhere along the way in training  
>> his
>> body to actually do the mechanics of tennis without conscious effort,
>> his body learned that what he was taught didn't work, and didn't do  
>> it
>> anymore.  His brain wasn't involved in the process.
>
> It's absolutely astonishing how much of what we think of as a  
> coherent mind is actually a committee process of separate (to  
> varying degrees) cognitive engines that get stitched together at the  
> top level and persuade themselves that they're a whole.
>
> -Patrick
>

Do you mean that is the "Society of Mind" sense?

Minsky's book was one of those that changed the way I look at  
development and internal thought processes.


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