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  title info:
    title: Sketches of thought
  name:
    name part: Goel, Vinod.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©1995
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xv, 279 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Much of the cognitive lies beyond articulate, discursive thought, beyond the reach of current computational notions. In Sketches of Thought, Vinod Goel argues that the cognitive computational conception of the world requires our thought processes to be precise, rigid, discrete, and unambiguous; yet there are dense, ambiguous, and amorphous symbol systems, like sketching, painting, and poetry, found in the arts and much of everyday discourse that have an important, non-trivial place in cognition. Goel maintains that while on occasion our thoughts do conform to the current computational theory of mind, they often are - indeed must be - vague, fluid, ambiguous, and amorphous. He argues that if cognitive science takes the classical computational story seriously, it must deny or ignore these processes, or at least relegate them to the realm of the nonmental. Along the way, Goel makes a number of significant and controversial interim points. He shows that there is a principled distinction between design and nondesign problems, that there are standard stages in the solution of design problems, that these stages correlate with the use of different types of external symbol systems, that these symbol systems are usefully individuated in Nelson Goodman's syntactic and semantic terms, and that different cognitive processes are facilitated by different types of symbol systems.
  note: Vinod Goel.
  note: "A Bradford book."
  note: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Berkeley, 1991.
  subject:
    topic: Mental representation
  subject:
    topic: Symbolism (Psychology)
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive science
  classification: BF316.6 .G64 1995eb
  classification: 153
  identifier: 9780262273985
  identifier: 0262273985
  identifier: 0585020493
  identifier: 9780585020495
  identifier: 9780262071635
  identifier: 0262071630
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 950117
    record change date: 20221121162433.1
    record identifier: in00004601223
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng