Introduction
Thinking about the integration challenge in Part II reinforced one of the key themes in our historical survey in Part I. The fundamental principle of cognitive science is that cognition is information processing. In Part I we saw how cognitive science emerged when researchers from different disciplines, all tackling very different problems, ended up converging on this basic insight. In Part II I proposed thinking about the integration challenge in terms of different mental architectures, where a mental architecture involves (1) a model of how the mind is organized into different cognitive systems, and (2) an account of how information is processed within (and across) those cognitive systems. The chapters in Part III introduce different ways of thinking about the second of these – how information is processed. The overall organization of the mind will be the subject of Part IV.
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