Product Description
Computer and the Mind Book: An Introduction to Cognitive Science – Pre-Loved
By Philip Johnson-Laird
This book addresses the central issues of cognitive science, such as how the mind works, and what enables us to have thoughts and feelings.
The Author explains what cognitive science is, describes its origins, and outlines what it has achieved.
How does the mind work? What enables us to have thoughts and feelings to decide what to do and how to act?
Intopspection cannot answer these questions, and so in recent years scientists from divers disciplines have turned their attention to them.
What brings these cognitive scientists together in the conviction that the mind will yield its secretes, but not on any single discpline ie not psychology, linguistics, anthropology, artiificial intelligence, neurophysiology or philosohy alone.
Cognitive science demands a synthesis of their methods and ideas, behind which there lies a central metaphor: the mind depends on the brain in the same way that the execution of the ‘program’ of symbolic intstructions depends upon a computer.
Lots of marks.
