The laws of thought : the quest for a mathematical theory of the mind /

"From the coauthor of Algorithms to Live By, an exploration of the quest to use mathematics to describe the ways we think, from its origins three hundred years ago to the ideas behind modern AI systems and the ways in which they still differ from human minds. Everyone has a basic understanding...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Griffiths, Tom, 1978- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2026.
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	Thought and thinking. Mathematics. Cognitive science. Science. Sciences cognitives. Pensée. Mathématiques. thinking. SCIENCE / Cognitive Science. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects. COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / Natural Language Processing.

Table of Contents:

Turning Aristotle into arithmetic
Computing a cognitive revolution
Solving problems
Language as a formal system
The limits of logic
Categories, spaces, and features
Computing with spaces
Brain models and mind models
The plot deepens
Language as a prediction problem
The missing question
Probability is the new logic
Universal laws of cognition
Language as a probability distribution
Putting it all together.