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Re:MIT professor Marvin Minsky wins $540,000 award by yc-kjh on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:44AM (#7452505)
> I think you ought to try Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Brakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

Thanks. I'll buy it and read it.

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Re:MIT professor Marvin Minsky wins $540,000 award by anigbrowl on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:53AM (#7452526)
It's not responsive to AI as such, but it does offer a sufficiently different model of consciousness that it might meet your Kuhnian threshold. I'm not sure that it's right, but it's so elegant that I feel it ought to be.
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