The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

4. Cognition: A General Property of Matter

  1. Cognition
  2. Mediation
  3. Representation
  4. Symbol Processing
  5. Production
  6. Mental Modules
  7. Dimensions of Cognition
  8. Mental Models
  9. Mental Imagery
  10. Mindsight
  11. Biological Epistemology
  12. Semantics and Pragmatics of Vision
  13. The Frame
  14. The Script
  15. The Self-organizing Schema
  16. Conceptual Graphs
  17. The Forecasting Machine
  18. Habits
  19. Enter the Body
  20. The Process Behind the Structure
  21. The Unity of Cognition

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)

Anderson John-Robert: THE ARCHITECTURE OF COGNITION (Harvard Univ Press, 1983)

Anderson John-Robert: THE ADAPTIVE CHARACTER OF THOUGHT (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1990)

Anderson John-Robert: RULES OF THE MIND (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1993)

Arbib Michael: CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Ballard Dana: COMPUTER VISION (Prentice Hall, 1982)

Block Ned: IMAGERY (MIT Press, 1981)

Craik Kenneth: THE NATURE OF EXPLANATION (Cambridge Univ Press, 1943)

Fauconnier Gilles: MENTAL SPACES (MIT Press, 1994)

Finke Ronald: PRINCIPLES OF MENTAL IMAGERY (MIT Press, 1989)

Finke Ronald: CREATIVE COGNITION (MIT Press, 1992)

Franklin Stan: ARTIFICIAL MINDS (MIT Press, 1995)

Green David: COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Blackwell, 1996)

Hampson Peter & Morris Peter: UNDERSTANDING COGNITION (Blackwell, 1995)

Hawkins Jeff: ON INTELLIGENCE (2004)

Johnson-Laird Philip: MENTAL MODELS (Harvard Univ Press, 1983)

Johnson-Laird Philip: THE COMPUTER AND THE MIND (Harvard Univ Press, 1988)

Johnson-Laird Philip & Byrne Ruth: DEDUCTION (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991)

Johnson, Mark: THE BODY IN THE MIND (University of Chicago Press, 1987)

Kosslyn Stephen: IMAGE AND MIND (Harvard University Press, 1980)

Kosslyn Stephen: GHOSTS IN THE MIND'S MACHINE (W. Norton, 1983)

Kosslyn Stephen & Koenig Olivier: WET MIND (Free Press, 1992)

Kosslyn Stephen: IMAGE AND BRAIN (MIT Press, 1994)

Laird John, Rosenbloom Paul & Newell Alan: UNIVERSAL SUBGOALING AND CHUNKING (Kluwer Academics, 1986)

Leyton Michael: SYMMETRY, CAUSALITY, MIND (MIT Press, 1992)

Luger George: COGNITIVE SCIENCE (Academic Press, 1993)

Marr David: VISION (MIT Press, 1982)

McGinn Colin: MINDSIGHT (2004)

Goodale, Melvyn &  Milner, David: THE VISUAL BRAIN IN ACTION (Oxford University Press, 1995)

Minsky Marvin: SEMANTIC INFORMATION PROCESSING (MIT Press, 1968)

Minsky Marvin: THE SOCIETY OF MIND (Simon & Schuster, 1985)

Newell Allen: UNIFIED THEORIES OF COGNITION (Harvard Univ Press, 1990)

Paivio Allan: IMAGERY AND VERBAL PROCESSES (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971)

Posner Michael: FOUNDATIONS OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1989)

Pylyshyn Zenon: COMPUTATION AND COGNITION (MIT Press, 1984)

Pylyshyn Zenon: SEEING AND VISUALIZING (MIT Press, 2003)

Schank Roger: SCRIPTS, PLANS, GOALS, AND UNDERSTANDING (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1977)

Schank Roger: DYNAMIC MEMORY (Cambridge Univ Press, 1982)

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine: THE PRIMACY OF MOVEMENT (John Benjamins, 1981)

Sowa John: CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES (Addison-Wesley, 1984)

Stillings Neil: COGNITIVE SCIENCE (MIT Press, 1995)

Thelen, Esther & Smith Linda: A DYNAMIC SYSTEMS APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION AND ACTION (MIT Press, 1994)

Ullman Shimon: THE INTERPRETATION OF VISUAL MOTION (MIT Press, 1979)