The Computer and the Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science
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Cognitive science brings together psychology, computing, linguistics, anthropology, artificial intelligence, neurophysiology and philosophy. This book addresses the central questions of cognitive science: how does the mind work, and what is it that enables us to have thoughts, or feelings? The book shows that the mind depends on a brain in th same way that the execution of a programme depends on a computer. It describes its origins, and outlines what it has achieved.
Author: P.N.Johnson Laird
Format: Paperback, 460 pages, 130mm x 197mm, 348 g
Published: 1993, HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom
Genre: Popular Psychology
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Cognitive science brings together psychology, computing, linguistics, anthropology, artificial intelligence, neurophysiology and philosophy. This book addresses the central questions of cognitive science: how does the mind work, and what is it that enables us to have thoughts, or feelings? The book shows that the mind depends on a brain in th same way that the execution of a programme depends on a computer. It describes its origins, and outlines what it has achieved.
The Computer and the Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science