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Is the human mind massively modular?
In Robert J. Stainton, Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (2006)
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Among the most pervasive and fundamental assumptions in cognitive science is that the human mind (or mind-brain) is a mechanism of some sort: a physical device com- posed of functionally specifiable subsystems. On this view, functional decomposition – the analysis of the overall system into functionally specifiable parts – becomes a central project for a science of the mind, and the resulting theories of cognitive archi- tecture essential to our understanding of human psychologyAuthor's Profile
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