Editing True Names (section)

==Afterword==

Minsky's afterword reviews ideas from his [[Society of Mind]] concept: the idea "that there is, inside the cranium, perhaps as many as a hundred different kinds of computers, each with a somewhat different basic architecture", which specialize in different tasks and communicate, though perhaps only crudely. Minsky considers our conscious minds to be higher-level executives, which don't really understand the inner workings of the subcomponents but rather select "simple names from menu-lists of symbols which appear, from time to time, upon our mental screen-displays." Tying this back to virtual reality, Minsky suggests that "we, ourselves, already exist as processes imprisoned in machines inside machines! Our mental worlds are already filled with wondrous, magical, symbol–signs, which add to every thing we 'see' its ‘meaning’ and ‘significance’."<ref name=Minsky1984>{{cite web|last1=Minsky|first1=Marvin|title=Afterword to Vernor Vinge's novel, "True Names".|accessdate=24 October 2014|url=https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/TrueNames.Afterword.html}}</ref>