Description: An attempt to integrate two theories about how the mind works, one that says that the mind is a computer-like manipulator of symbols, and another that says that the mind is a large network of neurons working together in parallel.
Brief description: Gary F. Marcus is Associate Professor of Psychology at New York University.
Review Quotes: In The Algebraic Mind, Marcus dives into the difficult waters of the connectionist-symbolic debate.--Kenneth J. Kurtz , Cognitive Sciences Society Newsletter--