The Emotion Machine
E100351
The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Emotion Machine canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T820426 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Emotion Machine Context triple: [Marvin Minsky, notableWork, The Emotion Machine]
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A.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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B.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
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C.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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D.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Emotion Machine Target entity description: The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
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A.
Society of Mind
Society of Mind is a seminal book by Marvin Minsky that proposes a theory of human intelligence as emerging from the interactions of many simple, non-intelligent agents within the mind.
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B.
The Human Brain
The Human Brain is a popular science book by Isaac Asimov that explains the structure, function, and mysteries of the human brain for a general audience.
-
C.
The Concept of Mind
The Concept of Mind is a 1949 philosophical work by Gilbert Ryle that critiques Cartesian dualism and introduces the idea of mental concepts as dispositions rather than inner ghostly states.
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D.
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind is a collection of essays by Isaac Asimov that explores science, technology, humanism, and social issues with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
Broca's Brain
Broca's Brain is a popular science book by Carl Sagan that explores the nature of scientific thought, the brain, and the cosmos through essays on astronomy, philosophy, and skepticism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| argues |
that emotions are forms of thinking
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that mental processes can be described as computational processes ⓘ |
| author | Marvin Minsky ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| explores |
how emotions can be modeled computationally
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how human thinking can be understood as computation ⓘ |
| follows | Society of Mind ⓘ |
| genre |
artificial intelligence literature
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cognitive science literature ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasAuthorRole | Marvin Minsky as artificial intelligence pioneer ⓘ |
| hasPart |
discussion of commonsense reasoning
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discussion of consciousness ⓘ discussion of emotions as cognitive processes ⓘ discussion of layers of the mind ⓘ discussion of self-reflection ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Society of Mind theory
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linked to:
Society of Mind
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| language | English ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| notableFor | linking emotions with computational models of mind ⓘ |
| proposes | a multi-level architecture of the mind ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| subject |
artificial intelligence
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cognitive science ⓘ computational theory of mind ⓘ emotions ⓘ human thinking ⓘ philosophy of mind ⓘ psychology of reasoning ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: The Emotion Machine Description of subject: The Emotion Machine is a 2006 book by artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky that explores how human thinking and emotions can be understood as computational processes of the mind.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Minsky