How does the mind work? Why do the best writers get the most writer’s block? Is the process of evolution the key to understanding the development of thought? Here are some selections from my recent reading.
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:14 How Can the Human Mind Occur in the Physical Universe? by John Anderson
2:18 Toward a General Theory of Expertise edited by Anders Ericsson and Jacqui Smith
4:05 The Psychology of Written Composition by Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter
6:17 How We Learn to Move by Rob Gray
7:11 Parallel Distributed Processing by David E. Rumelhart and James L. McClelland
9:25 Emerging Minds by Robert Siegler
11:20 On Problem Solving by Karl Duncker