Harmony Optimization and the Computational Architecture of the Mind / Brain
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What type of computer is the human mind/brain? The answer we propose is this: the mind is a symbol-manipulating computer, an abstract virtual machine realized in a brain performing connectionist computation. This characterizes the core of higher cognition, the particularly challenging and important realm of cognitive faculties operating in domains like abstract reasoning and language—faculties that are highly developed only in the human mind/brain. In this chapter, after reviewing the basics of symbolic and connectionist computation, we characterize our proposed Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic Cognitive Architecture (ICS) in the most general terms. We then discuss the structure of the book in detail and preview illustrative results from all other chapters.
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What type of computer is the human mind/brain? The answer we propose is this: the mind is a symbol manipulating computer, an abstract virtual machine realized in a brain performing connectionist computation. This characterizes the core of higher cognition, the particularly challenging and important realm of cognitive faculties operating in domains like abstract reasoning and language — facultie...
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