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Article: Mind: Introduction to Cognitive Science.
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- AI Magazine
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Understanding the mind is one of the great "holy grails" of twentieth-century research. Regardless of training, most people who come in contact with the field of AI are at least partially motivated by the glimmer of hope that they will get a better understanding of the mind. This quest, of course, is a rich and complex one. It is easy to get mired in minutiae along the way, be they the optimization of an algorithm, the details of a mental model, or the intricacies of a logical argument. Thagard's book attempts to call us back to the larger picture and to draw in new devotees -- and, in general, he succeeds.
This book begins, "Cognitive science is the ...
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