Title: The computer and the mind
First published: 1988
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.
Subjects: Cognitive science, Human information processing, Cognition, Computers, psychological aspects, Artificial intelligence, Computersimulation, Kognitiver Prozess, Mathematical models, Computational complexity, Learning
LC classification: BF311