Mental Models

Mental Models

Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

by Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

513 pages· ISBN 9780674568822
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This book offers a unified theory of the major propertries of mind, including comprehension, inference, and consciousness. The author argues that we apprehend the world by building inner mental replicas of the relationships among objects and events that concern us. The mind is essentially a model-building device that can itself be modeled on a computer. The book provides a blueprint for building such a model and numberous important illustrations of how to do it.

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