Tacit knowledge is a useful concept not mentioned by Minsky. I don&#x27;t think programming is really a good way of expressing a &quot;poorly understood and sloppily formulated idea&quot; of this type: a third party&#x27;s visual experience and verbal description of a skillful but complex human action such as shearing a sheep.<p>The old philosophical distinction between the discursive and the intuitive is key here. Can you systematically write a program which exactly replicates your intuitive responses to some set of possible situations? I&#x27;d say it&#x27;s difficult or impossible, because of the complexity of the brain and our lack of perfect introspection into what goes on in our minds.<p>Not sure Minsky really has a lot to offer a contemporary AGI readership. His work feels more than a little mechanistic.