Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tra… - Marvin Minsky

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Perhaps the music that some call 'background' music can tranquilize by turning under-thoughts from bad to neutral, leaving the surface thoughts free of affect by diverting the unconscious.

Marvin Minsky

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Marvin Lee Minsky (August 9, 1927 - January 24, 2016) was an American scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), co-founder of MIT's AI laboratory, author of several texts on AI and philosophy, and winner of the 1969 Turing Award.

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Native Name: Marvin Lee Minsky

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Get the mind into the (partial) state that solved the old problem; then it might handle the new problem in the "same way."

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