We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.
Marvin MinskyThere are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.
Marvin MinskyThe secret of what anything means to us depends on how we've connected it to all the other things we know. That's why it's almost always wrong to seek the "real meaning" of anything. A thing with just one meaning has scarcely any meaning at all.
Marvin MinskyNo computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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