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Decentralized minds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky
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Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute ot Technology, Cambridge. Mass. 02139
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1980 , pp. 439 - 440
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