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Sketches of Thought (Paperback)
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Sketches of Thought (Paperback)
Series: A Bradford Book
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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, nontrivial place in cognition. 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, nontrivial
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.
As a cognitive scientist with a design background, Goel is in a
unique position to challenge cognitive science on its own
territory. He introduces design problem solving as a domain of
cognition that illustrates these inarticulate, nondiscursive
thought processes at work through the symbol system of sketching.
He argues not that such thoughts must remain noncomputational but
that our current notions of computation and representation are not
rich enough to capture them. 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. A Bradford Book
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