Unifying the Mind
David Danks / Jan 20, 2021
Unifying the Mind Our ordinary everyday thinking requires an astonishing range of cognitive activities yet our cognition seems to take place seamlessly We move between cognitive processes with ease and different typ
Our ordinary, everyday thinking requires an astonishing range of cognitive activities, yet our cognition seems to take place seamlessly We move between cognitive processes with ease, and different types of cognition seem to share information readily In this book, David Danks proposes a novel cognitive architecture that can partially explain two aspects of human cognitionOur ordinary, everyday thinking requires an astonishing range of cognitive activities, yet our cognition seems to take place seamlessly We move between cognitive processes with ease, and different types of cognition seem to share information readily In this book, David Danks proposes a novel cognitive architecture that can partially explain two aspects of human cognition its relatively integrated nature and our effortless ability to focus on the relevant factors in any particular situation Danks argues that both of these features of cognition are naturally explained if many of our cognitive representations are understood to be structured like graphical models The computational framework of graphical models is widely used in machine learning, but Danks is the first to offer a book length account of its use to analyze multiple areas of cognition Danks demonstrates the usefulness of this approach by reinterpreting a variety of cognitive theories in terms of graphical models He shows how we can understand much of our cognition in particular causal learning, cognition involving concepts, and decision making through the lens of graphical models, thus clarifying a range of data from experiments and introspection Moreover, Danks demonstrates the important role that cognitive representations play in a unified understanding of cognition, arguing that much of our cognition can be explained in terms of different cognitive processes operating on a shared collection of cognitive representations Danks s account is mathematically accessible, focusing on the qualitative aspects of graphical models and separating the formal mathematical details in the text.
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David Danks
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