The computer and the mind : An introduction to cognitive science. By Philip N. Johnson-Laird Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. Pp. 444. $29.50.
Stephen R. Anderson · Language · 1989
Cognitive science brings together psychology, computing, linguistics, anthropology, artificial intelligence, neurophysiology and philosophy. This book addresses the central questions of cognitive science: how does the mind work, and what is it that enables us to have thoughts, or feelings? The book shows that the mind depends on a brain in th same way that the execution of a programme depends on a computer. It describes its origins, and outlines what it has achieved.