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Thinking about Thought: A Primer on the New Science of Mind

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Finally. I've been looking for this kind of broad survey of cognitive science since i took my first AI class. This has it all: Chomsky, Damasio, Edelman, you name it. Even physicists like Penrose and philosophers like Searle. Basically 600 books

packed in 600 pages.

Not as easy to read as the author advertises it, but, again, a lot

easier to read than 600 books...

I found this book disappointing. It has no index, is loaded with typos and other errors, and the layout of the references at the end of each chapter is like a high school term paper. At a higher level, the book does marginally better. I understand that the author intends only to give an overview but the book is so disjointed and the coverage so shallow that it is difficult to gain much of real value. The author's approach seems to be to briefly state (and sometimes misstate) the views of theorists without getting into enough detail to allow a reasonable evaluation. Perhaps the book's greatest merit is that its Further Reading lists point to many truly great works.

Smoothly written for a great read in terms of coverage on the topic of Artificial Intelligence and the Human Thought process. Mr. Scaruffi has performed an exhaustive amount of research which adds insight and support for the topics discussed in each chapter.

Pick it up!!!

Thank you for all the readers who took the time to post a review (critics always welcome!)
I just wanted to say that the book is now out of print. A new edition is coming out, titled "The Nature of Consciousness", that includes 95% of the text of "Thinking About Thought" plus new texts written since 2003. And hopefully corrects all the typos that were in the first edition.
Unfortunately, an alphabetical index is beyond my cognitive closure
(read the book to find out what a "cognitive closure" is :-) )
For further details on purchasing the new book, please check my website
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Thank you, piero scaruffi

Thinking about Thought was an insightful look into human thought.