On Seymour Papert in appreciation Seymour’s 1988 Talk at Purdue can be seen at Revaluation of the Concrete. NB. this post calls 11 video clips, and takes time to load completely. Coming to MIT to study Artificial Intelligence with Minsky had the wonderful side effect of introducing me to Seymour Papert, Marvin’s colleague and co-founder …

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Bob at 40 Corpus and Site Construction: Revised February, 2025 …the more one examines life the firmer becomes the conviction that it contains no well-rounded plots and that a good deal of what we do has a higgledy-piggledy nature, slapstick in tone, which forces us either to be greatly sad or highly hysterical. Philosophy is …

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