"Our attachment mechanisms force us to focus on our parent's ways, and this leads us to build crude images of what those parents themselves are like. That way, the values and goals of a culture pass from one generation to the next. They are not learned the way skills are learned." Attachment might be a method of imposing coherence on a bunch of mindless agencies. (NB: Here, Minsky shows a strange mix of Freud and cognitivism. This reminds me of an article that I read in the Annals of Theoretical Psychology that argued that Freud's notion of cognitive functions was pretty mainstream for his day.)
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