Mental Models offers nothing less than a unified theory of the major properties of mind: comprehension, inference, and consciousness.
Most provocative, perhaps, is Johnson-Laird’s theory of consciousness: the mind’s necessarily incomplete model of itself allows only a partial control over the many unconscious and parallel processes of cognition.
The Creativity Question
A collection of essays brings psychiatric and philosophical authority to the discussion of an important topic – creativity. AN enormous amount of seminal works on creativity. Individual papers are all classics.
Continue ReadingThe Computer and the Brain
One of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, John von Neumann, explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain.
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