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Towards a Theory of Thinking

By Albrecht Müller

Towards a Theory of Thinking Medicine

Towards a Theory of Thinking

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What is Thinking? ¿ Trying to Define an Equally Fascinating and Elusive Phenomenon Human thinking is probably the most complex phenomenon that evolution has come up with until now. There exists a broad spectrum of definitions, from subs- ing almost all processes of cognition to limiting it to language-based, sometimes even only to formalizable reasoning processes. We work with a ¿medium sized¿ definition according to which thinking encompasses all operations by which cog- tive agents link mental content in order to gain new insights or perspectives. Mental content is, thus, a prerequisite for and the substrate on which thinking operations are executed. The largely unconscious acts of perceptual object stabilization, ca- gorization, emotional evaluation ¿ and retrieving all the above from memory inscriptions ¿ are the processes by which mental content is generated, and are, therefore, seen as prerequisites for thinking operations. In terms of a differentia specifica, the notion of ¿thinking¿ is seen as narrower than the notion of ¿cognition¿ and as wider than the notion of ¿reasoning¿. Thinking is, thus, seen as a subset of cognition processes; and reasoning processes are seen as a subset of thinking. Besides reasoning, the notion of thinking includes also nonexplicit, intuitive, and associative processes of linking mental content. According to this definition, thinking is not dependant on language, i. e. also many animals and certainly all mammals show early forms of thinking.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
428
Release Date:
2010-02-26
Publication Date:
2010-02-26
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3642031285
ISBN13:
9783642031281
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Weight:
883 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
241 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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