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>From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
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Subject: subconscious(was Re: AI failures)
Keywords: subconscious
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Date: 18 May 92 12:52:27 GMT
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In article <1992May16.162406.17453@news.media.mit.edu> minsky@media.mit.edu  
(Marvin Minsky) writes:
> As a stoic, I have to work very hard to dislike fun, etc.  I
> don;t succeed very well and, as a result a lot of my time gets wasted.
> Almost as much as most other people.

Don't feel guilty about wasting time.  All the work gets done by one's
seething subconscious society.  Once the conscious has loaded the problem 
into the queue, there's not a lot the conscious mind can do to speed the 
solution process.

Fun may be just the subconscious' way of distracting the conscious away 
from fruitless attempts to interfere with the real solution process. :-/


