The Architecture of the Mind
- ISBN-10
- 0199207089
- ISBN-13
- 9780199207084
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 462
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-09-28
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Peter Carruthers
Description
"Peter Carruthers's third aim is to show how the various components of the mind are likely to be linked and interact with one another - indeed, this is crucial to demonstrating how the human mind, together with its familiar capacities, can be underpinned by a massively modular set of mechanisms. He outlines and defends the basic framework of a perception / belief / desire / planning / motor-control architecture, as well as detailing the likely components and their modes of connectivity. Many specific claims about the place within this architecture of natural language, of a mind-reading system, and others are explained and motivated. A number of novel proposals are made in the course of these discussions, one of which is that creative human thought depends upon a prior kind of creativity of action."--BOOK JACKET.
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