Overview
Most cognitive scientists think that, in some sense, the mind is organized into cognitive sub-systems. But there are many different ways of thinking about how this organization might work in practice. We looked at some of these in the last chapter. Fodor’s modularity doctrine is one example. The massive modularity thesis a rather different one. But, if we accept the general picture of the mind as organized into cognitive sub-systems, two questions immediately arise:
How do the individual cognitive sub-systems work?
How are the individual sub-systems connected up with each other?
In Chapters 6–10 we have been focusing on the first question. In this chapter we turn to the second question. What we are interested in now is how the individual sub-systems fit together – or, to put it another way, what the wiring diagram of the mind looks like.
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