Author: Calvin, W.
Title: How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now
Date: 1996 New York, NY
Publisher: BasicBooks
Calvin describes some fundamental knowledge about the processes of cognition and proposes a propositional syntax that enables humans to outthink animals. These human abilities to construct abstract hierarchical and causal propositions and symbolize them with words are tightly coupled to make us what we are. His arguments are very persuasive.
cognition
comprehension
fuzzy logic
cybernetics
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