Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness

Mental Models: Towards a Cognitive Science of Language, Inference, and Consciousness
ISBN-10
0674568826
ISBN-13
9780674568822
Series
Mental Models
Category
Psychology
Pages
532
Language
English
Published
1983
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird

Description

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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