Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind Lectures

An online HTML version of Minsky's book "The Society of Mind," formatted by Dylan Holmes:

The lectures are great but not content-heavy. Professor Minsky goes on tangents, rants, and takes questions most of the time but it's all entertaining and somewhat informative. I suggest reading The Emotion Machine book for more of the theory.

I don't like the audio with all the coughing and the mic picking up at times all kind of "smacking" sounds.

Is this related to his book "Society of Mind"? If so, ow accurate is this view of the mind today?

>Is this related to his book "Society of Mind"?

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

I think lot of things like modular architecture are still partially valid but I only have brief idea of his all views. I am sure some have been updated or falsified.

interesting reference list - this course seems to discuss specifically layers for cognitive systems. I think "society of mind" addressed more general concepts and ideas about cognition and semantics.