The goal of this book was to introduce a large-scale model of the mind. The thesis is that the
human brain performs its great variety of functions by exploiting the advantages of many …

The development of cognitive science is one of the most remarkable and fascinating
intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is as old as …

Cognitive science approaches the study of mind and intelligence from an interdisciplinary
perspective, working at the intersection of philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence …

For all of recorded history prior to the second half of the twentieth century, there has been
but one realm in which the cognitive processes of reasoning and problem solving, learning …

Tracing the history of central concepts from the nineteenth century to the present, this study
surveys the significant contributions of philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and computer …

While the mind remains a mysterious and inaccessible phenomenon, many of the
components of mind, such as perception, behavior generation, knowledge representation …

0. 0 Psychology versus Complex Systems Science Over the last century, psychology has
become much less of an art and much more of a science. Philosophical speculation is out; …

I became involved in AI during the 1970s, when I was in graduate school, because I wanted
to understand the nature of the mind. This seemed as though it were one of the core …

What light do current developments in computing shed on philosophical and psychological
understanding of the human mind. A group of authors from philosophy, artificial intelligence …

I suspect that many of the contributors to this volume are very gung ho about the progress
that is being made in the many topics related to intelligence. I would also bet that most are …