The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science - Rilegato

Johnson-Laird, P. N.

 
9780674156159: The Computer and the Mind: An Introduction to Cognitive Science
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ISBN 10: 0674156153 ISBN 13: 9780674156159
Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 1988

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In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations.

The author begins with a brief account of the history of psychology and the birth of cognitive science after World War II. He then describes clearly and simply the nature of symbols and the theory of computation, and follows with sections devoted to current computational models of how the mind carries out all its major tasks, including visual perception, learning, memory, the planning and control of actions, deductive and inductive reasoning, and the formation of new concepts and new ideas. Other sections discuss human communication, meaning, the progress that has been made in enabling computers to understand natural language, and finally the difficult problems of the conscious and unconscious mind, free will, needs and emotions, and self-awareness. In an envoi, the author responds to the critics of cognitive science and defends the computational view of the mind as an alternative to traditional dualism: cognitive science integrates mind and matter within the same explanatory framework.

This first single-authored introduction to cognitive science will command the attention of students of cognitive science at all levels including psychologists, linguists, computer scientists, philosophers, and neuroscientists--as well as all readers curious about recent knowledge on how the mind works.

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Editore
Harvard Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
1988
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0674156153
ISBN 13 
9780674156159
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
448
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
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non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  0674156161 ISBN 13:  9780674156166
Casa editrice: Harvard University Press, 1989
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