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Thinking without Words (I Am Not a Machine, Book 1)
Thinking without Words - I Am Not a Machine, Book 1 Author:Jack Lynch Dr. Lynch claims that you cannot teach a chimp to parallel park a car or make Coq au Vin because natural language is required to structure complex perceptions and behavior. However, what can a chimp's mind do and how does it do it? If a chimp?s mind is not based on computation, could it be based on a simple stimulus response process supported b... more »y connectionist's models of the brain? Not exactly, argues Dr. Lynch, who has developed his own models of the languageless brain, based on his experiences doing research in complex signal processing. Studying the animal mind and the fundamental mental processes that support it focuses our attention on fundamental aspects of the mind that have significant implications for understanding the nature of human intelligence. Characterizing the languageless mode of cognition used by both animals and humans is the focus of this first book, subtitled, "Thinking without Words." The second book in the series, which is subtitled, "Thinking with Words," focuses on the role of natural language in human thought.« less