Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Prologue

1.1 The agents of the mind
1.2 The mind and the brain
1.3 The society of mind
1.4 The world of blocks
1.5 Common sense
1.6 Agents and Agencies

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What can we do when things are hard to describe? We start by
stretching out the roughest shapes to serve as scaffolds for the
rest; it doesn't matter very much if some of those forms turn
out partially wrong. Next, draw details to give these skeletons
more lifelike flesh. Last, in the final filling-in, discard
whichever first ideas no longer fit.

1.4 p 21
This forgetfulness, the amnesia of infancy, makes us assume that
all our wonderful abilities were always there inside our
minds[.]

1.6 Agents and Agencies, p 23
[Similar to objects and their interfaces, but *functional*
decomposition] Let's use two different words, "agent" and
"agency", to say why *Builder* seems to lead a double life. As
agency, it seems to know its job. As agent, it cannot know
anything at all.