Transcription of So How Does the Mind Work? - Steven Pinker
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So How Does the Mind Work? - Steven Pinker
So HowDoesthe mind Work? Steven PINKERA bstract:In my bookHow the mind Works, I defended the theory that thehuman mind is a naturally selected system of organs of computation. Jerry Fodor claimsthat the mind doesn t work that way (in a book with that title) because (1) TuringMachines cannot duplicate humans ability to perform abduction (inference to the bestexplanation); (2) though a massively modular system could succeed at abduction, such asystem is implausible on other grounds; and (3) evolution adds nothing to our under-standing of the mind . In this review I show that these arguments are flawed. First, myclaim that the mind is a computational system is different from the claim Fodor attacks(that the mind has the architecture of a Turing Machine); therefore the practicallimitations of Turing Machines are irrelevant.
So How Does the Mind Work? STEVEN PINKER Abstract: In my book How the Mind Works, I defended the theory that the human mind is a naturally selected system of organs of computation.
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