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An attempt to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel.
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The Algebraic Mind - Table of Contents - The MIT Press 1 of 1 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4362&mo... HOME | YOUR PROFILE | TO ORDER | CONTACT US | FAQ <> The Algebraic Mind Integrating Connectionism and Cognitive Science Gary F. Marcus Series Foreword Title Advanced Search Preface Join an E-mail Alert List 1 Cognitive Architectures 2 Multilayer Perceptrons 3 Relations between Variables February 2001 ISBN 0-262-13379-2 6 x 9, 240 pp., 47 illus. (CLOTH) Out Of Print Other Editions Paper (2003) Series Bradford Books Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change 4 Structured Representations 5 Individuals 6 Where does the Machinery of Symbol Manipulation Come From? 7 Conclusions Notes Glossary Reference Name Index Subject Index ABOUT THE PRESS | RSS FEEDS TERMS OF USE | PRIVACY POLICY | COPYRIGHT © 2006 MIT 3/17/2006 11:47 AM Preface My interest in cognitive science began in high school, with a naïve attempt to write a computer program that I hoped would translate Latin into English. The program didn’t wind up being able to do all that much, but it brought me to read some of the literature on artificial intelligence. At the center of this literature was the metaphor of mind as machine. Around the time that I started college, cognitive science had begun an enormous shift. In a two-volume book called Parallel Distributed Processing (or just PDP), David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland, and their collaborators (McClelland, Rumelhart & the PDP Researc