Human and Machine Thinking
- Authors
- Johnson-Laird, P.N.
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Tags
- cognitive psychology , psychology , intelligence (ai) & semantics , computers
- ISBN
- 9780805809213
- Date
- 1992-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.99 MB
- Lang
- en
This book aims to reach an understanding of how the mind carries out three sorts of thinking -- deduction, induction, and creation -- to consider what goes right and what goes wrong, and to explore computational models of these sorts of thinking. Written for students of the mind -- psychologists, computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and other cognitive scientists -- it also provides general readers with a self-contained account of human and machine thinking. The author presents his point of view, rather than a review, as simply as possible so that no technical background is required. Like the field of research itself, it calls for hard thinking about thinking.