Is thought possible without language? Individuals with global aphasia, who have almost no
ability to understand or produce language, provide a powerful opportunity to find out …

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in
support of a new and exciting theory of mind. Most psychologists study horizontal processes …

With the exception of two enjoyable, but essentially digressive, interludes of Connectionist
bashing (see Fodor and Pylyshyn, 1988; Fodor and McLaughlin, 1989) the essays included …

Western culture has inherited a view of understanding as an intellectual cognitive operation
of gras** of concepts and their relations. However, cognitive science research has shown …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in
the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition …

Originally published in 1987, the introduction states:" the authors have successfully
accomplished their program–to explain, based on physical representations, the observed …

This essay addresses Cartesian duality and how its implicit dialectic might be repaired using
physics and information theory. Our agenda is to describe a key distinction in the physical …

There is always a scientific Establishment, and what it believes is always more or less
untrue. Even in the respectable sciences empirical knowledge is forever undergoing …

Tactical deception occurs when an individual is able to use an “honest” act from his normal
repertoire in a different context to mislead familiar individuals. Although primates have a …