The computer and the mind
Subtitle: an introduction to cognitive science
By: P.N. Johnson-Laird.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 444
Subjects: Cognitive science; Human information processing
Other titles: Cognitive science.
Description: In a field choked with seemingly impenetrable jargon, Philip N. Johnson-Laird has done the impossible: written a book about how the mind works that requires no advance knowledge of artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, or psychology. The mind, he says, depends on the brain in the same way as the execution of a program of symbolic instructions depends on a computer, and can thus be understood by anyone willing to start with basic principles of computation and follow his step-by-step explanations. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 397-430.
Includes indexes.