The Mind, The Brain, Intelligence, and Cognition

How do minds work? What would an answer to this question look like? What is a mind? What is a mind? What is intelligence? What is intelligence? How do brains work? How do brains work?Neurons Brain structure What’s the difference between the brain and the mind? What’s the difference between the brain and the mind?

Cognition Cognition – from Latin base cognitio – “know together” The collection of mental processes and activities used in perceiving, learning, remembering, thinking, and understanding and the act of using those processes and the act of using those processes

Ways of thinking about learning Who learns? brain vs. genome brain vs. genome individual vs. group individual vs. group What is learned? facts vs. skills vs. rules vs... facts vs. skills vs. rules vs... information vs. physiology information vs. physiology Where does knowledge come from? experience vs. reason vs. analogy vs. chance experience vs. reason vs. analogy vs. chance How does learning work?

Cognitive Processes Learning and Memory Thinking and Reasoning (Planning, Decision Making, Problem Solving...) Analogy and metaphor LanguageVision-Perception Social Cognition Emotions Dreaming and Consciousness

So What IS Cognitive Science? Some possible definitions: “The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence” “The interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence” “Study of cognitive processes involved in the acquisition, representation and use of human knowledge” “Study of cognitive processes involved in the acquisition, representation and use of human knowledge” “Scientific study of the mind, the brain, and intelligent behaviour, whether in humans, animals, machines or the abstract” “Scientific study of the mind, the brain, and intelligent behaviour, whether in humans, animals, machines or the abstract” The goal of Cog. Sci. (according to some) develop a theory of intelligent Systems? develop a theory of intelligent Systems? The goal of artificial intelligence?