If there's something you like very much then you should regard this not as you feeling good but as a kind of brain cancer, because it means that some small part of your mind has figured out how to turn off all the other things.

— Marvin Minsky, The Many Minds of Marvin Minsky (R.I.P.) (2016)

Source: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/the-many-minds-of-marvin-minsky-r-i-p/

From John Horgan's Scientific American Blogs post, 26 January 2016.

Topics: life