Our ability to think is one of our most puzzling characteristics. What it would be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-awareness? The complexity of this activity is striking. Thinking involves the interaction of a range of mental processes - attention, emotion, memory, pla[...]
Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the symbolic and connectionist approaches. He aims to present a coherent research programme that can be used as a basis for more detailed investigations.[...]