learningDefinition


 * //Learning//**//. An omnibus word for all the processes that lead to long term changes in our minds// - Marvin Minsky

What is learning? We better try to be clear about that in a wiki named learningEvolves!

Marvin Minsky refers to learning as **suitcase word**, one of the words that have lots of different meanings when you look at them closely. Or as Minsky says in [|Society of Mind]:


 * Learning**. An omnibus word for all the processes that lead to long term changes in our minds (p. 329)

The word "learning" represents many diverse ideas, such as:
 * uniframing: combining several descriptions into one
 * accumulating: collecting incompatible descriptions
 * reformulating: modifying a description's character
 * trans-framing: bridging between structures and functions

Also learning has a context. Interest is essential. We can't have a learning theory that doesn't consider context. That is facing reality. **People don't learn much unless they are interested and / or concerned**. Context cannot be separated from the content or the process. (Minsky, 12.2)

There is no single secret, magic trick to learning; we simply have to learn a large society of different ways to learn (Minsky 12.3)

types of learning
[|Inference] (wikipedia) is the act or process of deriving a [|conclusion] based solely on what one already knows