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 .
like logic, statistics, or laws of cause and effect in the world. The design of the system thus ensures that if the old representations were accurate, the new ones are accurate as well. Deriving new accurate beliefs from old ones in pursuit of a goal is not a bad definition of ‘intelligence’, so a principal advantage of the computational
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