The Society of Mind
The Society of Mind
SOM Glossary
The Emotion Machine
The Society of Mind
SOM Glossary
The Emotion Machine
  • 1 PROLOGUE
    • 1.1 THE AGENTS OF THE MIND
    • 1.2 THE MIND AND THE BRAIN
    • 1.3 THE SOCIETY OF MIND
    • 1.4 THE WORLD OF BLOCKS
  • 2 WHOLES AND PARTS
    • 2.1 COMPONENTS AND CONNECTIONS
    • 2.2 NOVELISTS AND REDUCTIONISTS
    • 2.3 PARTS AND WHOLES
    • 2.4 HOLES AND PARTS
    • 2.5 EASY THINGS ARE HARD
    • 2.6 ARE PEOPLE MACHINES
  • 3 CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE
    • 3.1 CONFLICT
    • 3.2 NONCOMPROMISE
    • 3.3 HIERARCHIES
    • 3.4 HETERARCHIES
    • 3.5 DESTRUCTIVENESS
    • 3.6 PAIN AND PLEASURE SIMPLIFIED
  • 4 THE SELF
    • 4.1 THE SELF
    • 4.2 ONE SELF OR MANY
    • 4.3 THE SOUL
    • 4.4 THE CONSERVATIVE SELF
    • 4.5 EXPLOITATION
    • 4.6 SELF-CONTROL
    • 4.7 LONG-RANGE PLANS
    • 4.8 IDEALS
  • 5 INDIVIDUALITY
    • 5 INDIVIDUALITY
    • 5.1 CIRCULAR CAUSALITY
    • 5.2 UNANSWERABLE QUESTIONS
    • 5.3 THE REMOTE-CONTROL SELF
    • 5.4 PERSONAL IDENTITY
    • 5.5 FASHION AND STYLE
    • 5.6 TRAITS
    • 5.7 PERMANENT IDENTITY
  • 6 INSIGHT AND INTROSPECTION
    • 6.1 CONSCIOUSNESS
    • 6.2 SIGNALS AND SIGNS
    • 6.3 THOUGHT-EXPERIMENTS
    • 6.4 B-BRAINS
    • 6.5 FROZEN REFLECTION
    • 6.6 MOMENTARY MENTAL TIME
    • 6.7 THE CAUSAL NOW
    • 6.8 THINKING WITHOUT THINKING
    • 6.9 HEADS IN THE CLOUDS
    • 6.10 WORLDS OUT OF MIND
    • 6.11 IN-SIGHT
    • 6.12 INTERNAL COMMUNICATION
    • 6.13 SELF-KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS
    • 6.14 CONFUSION
  • 7 PROBLEMS AND GOALS
    • 7.1 INTELLIGENCE
    • 7.2 UNCOMMON SENSE
    • 7.3 THE PUZZLE PRINCIPLE
    • 7.4 PROBLEM SOLVING
    • 7.5 LEARNING AND MEMORY
    • 7.6 REINFORCEMENT AND REWARD
    • 7.7 LOCAL RESPONSIBILITY
    • 7.8 DIFFERENCE-ENGINES
    • 7.9 INTENTIONS
    • 7.10 GENIUS
  • 8 A THEORY OF MEMORY
    • 8.1 K-LINES A THEORY OF MEMORY
    • 8.2 RE-MEMBERING
    • 8.3 MENTAL STATES AND DISPOSITIONS
    • 8.4 PARTIAL MENTAL STATES
    • 8.5 LEVEL-BANDS
    • 8.6 LEVELS
    • 8.7 FRINGES
    • 8.8 SOCIETIES OF MEMORIES
    • 8.9 KNOWLEDGE-TREES
    • 8.10 LEVELS AND CLASSIFICATIONS
    • 8.11 LAYERS OF SOCIETIES
  • 9 SUMMARIES
    • 9.1 WANTING AND LIKING
    • 9.2 GERRYMANDERING
    • 9.3 LEARNING FROM FAILURE
    • 9.4 ENJOYING DISCOMFORT
  • 10 PAPERTS PRINCIPLE
    • 10.1 PIAGETS EXPERIMENTS
    • 10.2 REASONING ABOUT AMOUNTS
    • 10.3 PRIORITIES
    • 10.4 PAPERTS PRINCIPLE
    • 10.5 THE SOCIETY-OF-MORE
    • 10.6 ABOUT PIAGETS EXPERIMENTS
    • 10.7 THE CONCEPT OF CONCEPT
    • 10.8 EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
    • 10.9 LEARNING A HIERARCHY
  • 11 THE SHAPE OF SPACE
    • 11.1 SEEING RED
    • 11.2 THE SHAPE OF SPACE
    • 11.3 NEARNESSES
    • 11.4 INNATE GEOGRAPHY
    • 11.5 SENSING SIMILARITIES
    • 11.6 THE CENTERED SELF
    • 11.7 PREDESTINED LEARNING
    • 11.8 HALF-BRAINS
    • 11.9 DUMBBELL THEORIES
  • 12 LEARNING MEANING
    • 12.1 A BLOCK-ARCH SCENARIO
    • 12.2 LEARNING MEANING
    • 12.3 UNIFRAMES
    • 12.4 STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
    • 12.5 THE FUNCTION OF STRUCTURES
    • 12.6 ACCUMULATION
    • 12.7 ACCUMULATION STRATEGIES
    • 12.8 PROBLEMS OF DISUNITY
    • 12.9 THE EXCEPTION PRINCIPLE
    • 12.10 HOW TOWERS WORK
    • 12.11 HOW CAUSES WORK
    • 12.12 MEANING AND DEFINITION
    • 12.13 BRIDGE-DEFINITIONS
  • 13 SEEING AND BELIEVING
    • 13.1 REFORMULATION
    • 13.2 BOUNDARIES
    • 13.3 SEEING AND BELIEVING
    • 13.4 CHILDRENS DRAWING-FRAMES
    • 13.5 LEARNING A SCRIPT
    • 13.6 THE FRONTIER EFFECT
    • 13.7 DUPLICATIONS
  • 14 REFORMULATION
    • 14.1 USING REFORMULATION
    • 14.2 MEANS AND ENDS
    • 14.3 SEEING SQUARES
    • 14.4 BRAINSTORMING
    • 14.5 THE INVESTMENT PRINCIPLE
    • 14.6 PARTS AND HOLES
    • 14.7 THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING
    • 14.8 THE INTERACTION-SQUARE
  • 15 CONSCIOUSNESS AND MEMORY
    • 15.1 MOMENTARY MENTAL STATE
    • 15.2 SELF-EXAMINATION
    • 15.3 MEMORY
    • 15.4 MEMORIES OF MEMORIES
    • 15.5 THE IMMANENCE ILLUSION
    • 15.6 MANY KINDS OF MEMORY
    • 15.7 MEMORY REARRANGEMENTS
    • 15.8 ANATOMY OF MEMORY
    • 15.9 INTERRUPTION AND RECOVERY
    • 15.10 LOSING TRACK
    • 15.11 THE RECURSION PRINCIPLE
  • 16 EMOTION
    • 16.1 EMOTION
    • 16.2 MENTAL GROWTH
    • 16.3 MENTAL PROTO-SPECIALISTS
    • 16.4 CROSS-EXCLUSION
    • 16.5 AVALANCHE EFFECTS
    • 16.6 MOTIVATION
    • 16.7 EXPLOITATION
    • 16.8 STIMULUS VS. SIMULUS
    • 16.9 INFANT EMOTIONS
    • 16.10 ADULT EMOTIONS
  • 17 DEVELOPMENT
    • 17.1 SEQUENCES OF TEACHING-SELVES
    • 17.2 ATTACHMENT-LEARNING
    • 17.3 ATTACHMENT SIMPLIFIES
    • 17.4 FUNCTIONAL AUTONOMY
    • 17.5 DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
    • 17.6 PREREQUISITES FOR GROWTH
    • 17.7 GENETIC TIMETABLES
    • 17.8 ATTACHMENT-IMAGES
    • 17.9 DIFFERENT SPANS OF MEMORIES
    • 17.10 INTELLECTUAL TRAUMA
    • 17.11 INTELLECTUAL IDEALS
  • 18 REASONING
    • 18.1 MUST MACHINES BE LOGICAL
    • 18.2 CHAINS OF REASONING
    • 18.3 CHAINING
    • 18.4 LOGICAL CHAINS
    • 18.5 STRONG ARGUMENTS
    • 18.6 MAGNITUDE FROM MULTITUDE
    • 18.7 WHAT IS A NUMBER
    • 18.8 MATHEMATICS MADE HARD
    • 18.9 ROBUSTNESS AND RECOVERY
  • 19 WORDS AND IDEAS
    • 19.1 THE ROOTS OF INTENTION
    • 19.2 THE LANGUAGE-AGENCY
    • 19.3 WORDS AND IDEAS
    • 19.4 OBJECTS AND PROPERTIES
    • 19.5 POLYNEMES
    • 19.6 RECOGNIZERS
    • 19.7 WEIGHING EVIDENCE
    • 19.8 GENERALIZING
    • 19.9 RECOGNIZING THOUGHTS
    • 19.10 CLOSING THE RING
  • 20 CONTEXT AND AMBIGUITY
    • 20.1 AMBIGUITY
    • 20.2 NEGOTIATING AMBIGUITY
    • 20.3 VISUAL AMBIGUITY
    • 20.4 LOCKING-IN AND WEEDING-OUT
    • 20.5 MICRONEMES
    • 20.6 THE NEMEIC SPIRAL
    • 20.7 CONNECTIONS
    • 20.8 CONNECTION LINES
    • 20.9 DISTRIBUTED MEMORY
  • 21 TRANS-FRAMES
    • 21.1 THE PRONOUNS OF THE MIND
    • 21.2 PRONOMES
    • 21.3 TRANS-FRAMES
    • 21.4 COMMUNICATION AMONG AGENTS
    • 21.5 AUTOMATISM
    • 21.6 TRANS-FRAME PRONOMES
    • 21.7 GENERALIZING WITH PRONOMES
    • 21.8 ATTENTION
  • 22 EXPRESSION
    • 22.1 PRONOMES AND POLYNEMES
    • 22.2 ISONOMES
    • 22.3 DE-SPECIALIZING
    • 22.4 LEARNING AND TEACHING
    • 22.5 INFERENCE
    • 22.6 EXPRESSION
    • 22.7 CAUSES AND CLAUSES
    • 22.8 INTERRUPTIONS
    • 22.9 PRONOUNS AND REFERENCES
    • 22.10 VERBAL EXPRESSION
    • 22.11 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
    • 23.1 A WORLD OF DIFFERENCES
    • 23.2 DIFFERENCES AND DUPLICATES
    • 23.3 TIME BLINKING
    • 23.4 THE MEANINGS OF MORE
    • 23.5 FOREIGN ACCENTS
  • 24 FRAMES
    • 24.1 THE SPEED OF THOUGHT
    • 24.2 FRAMES OF MIND
    • 24.3 HOW TRANS-FRAMES WORK
    • 24.4 DEFAULT ASSUMPTIONS
    • 24.5 NONVERBAL REASONING
    • 24.6 DIRECTION-NEMES
    • 24.7 PICTURE-FRAMES
    • 24.8 HOW PICTURE-FRAMES WORK
    • 24.9 RECOGNIZERS AND MEMORIZERS
  • 25 FRAME ARRAYS
    • 25.1 ONE FRAME AT A TIME
    • 25.2 FRAME-ARRAYS
    • 25.3 THE STATIONARY WORLD
    • 25.4 THE SENSE OF CONTINUITY
    • 25.5 EXPECTATIONS
    • 25.6 THE FRAME IDEA
  • 26 LANGUAGE-FRAMES
    • 26.1 UNDERSTANDING WORDS
    • 26.2 UNDERSTANDING STORIES
    • 26.3 SENTENCE-FRAMES
    • 26.4 A PARTY-FRAME
    • 26.5 STORY-FRAMES
    • 26.6 SENTENCE AND NONSENSE
    • 26.7 FRAMES FOR NOUNS
    • 26.8 FRAMES FOR VERBS
    • 26.9 LANGUAGE AND VISION
    • 26.10 LEARNING LANGUAGE
    • 26.11 GRAMMAR
    • 26.12 COHERENT DISCOURSE
    • 27.1 DEMONS
    • 27.2 SUPPRESSORS
    • 27.3 CENSORS
    • 27.4 EXCEPTIONS TO LOGIC
    • 27.5 JOKES
    • 27.6 HUMOR AND CENSORSHIP
    • 27.7 LAUGHTER
    • 27.8 GOOD HUMOR
  • 28 THE MIND AND THE WORLD
    • 28.1 THE MYTH OF MENTAL ENERGY
    • 28.2 MAGNITUDE AND MARKETPLACE
    • 28.3 QUANTITY AND QUALITY
    • 28.4 MIND OVER MATTER
    • 28.5 THE MIND AND THE WORLD
    • 28.6 MINDS AND MACHINES
    • 28.7 INDIVIDUAL IDENTITIES
    • 28.8 OVERLAPPING MINDS
  • 29 THE REALMS OF THOUGHT
    • 29.1 THE REALMS OF THOUGHT
    • 29.2 SEVERAL THOUGHTS AT ONCE
    • 29.3 PARANOMES
    • 29.4 CROSS-REALM CORRESPONDENCES
    • 29.5 THE PROBLEM OF UNITY
    • 29.6 AUTISTIC CHILDREN
    • 29.7 LIKENESSES AND ANALOGIES
    • 29.8 METAPHORS
  • 30 MENTAL MODELS
    • 30.1 KNOWING
    • 30.2 KNOWING AND BELIEVING
    • 30.3 MENTAL MODELS
    • 30.4 WORLD MODELS
    • 30.5 KNOWING OURSELVES
    • 30.6 FREEDOM OF WILL
    • 30.7 THE MYTH OF THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE
    • 30.8 INTELLIGENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS

# 30 MENTAL MODELS

30.1 KNOWING

30.2 KNOWING AND BELIEVING

30.3 MENTAL MODELS

30.4 WORLD MODELS

30.5 KNOWING OURSELVES

30.6 FREEDOM OF WILL

30.7 THE MYTH OF THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE

30.8 INTELLIGENCE AND RESOURCEFULNESS