Introduction to Cognitive Science

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This course is an introduction to the science of the mind from the perspective of cognitive psychology, this course is a study of linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. The focus is on the similarities and differences in the approaches taken by researchers in their study of cognitive mechanisms in these different fields. Issues to be addressed include: What does it mean to be able to think? What kind of computational architecture(s) is most appropriate to describe cognitive mechanisms? Is the mind an emergent property of the brain? What kind of hardware is required for thinking to occur? Can a computer have a mind?