Deep Learning: How the Mind Overrides Experience

And DiscussionSCALING FROM INDIVIDUALS TO COLLECTIVES; Stagnation and Breakthroughs in Collectives; An Emerging Change Mechanism: Replacement; Summary; MERGING TIME AND COLLECTIVITY; THE ULTIMATE SYSTEM LEVEL; PART THREE ADAPTATION; 6 The Growth of Competence; QUESTIONS ABOUT PRACTICE; RULES AND THE STRUCTURE OF ACTION; The Units of Behavior; Goals; Task Environments; Practical Knowledge; Strategy Execution; PROCESSES FOR SKILL ACQUISITION; A Century of Progress; The Information Specificity Principle; Stage 1: Getting started; Stage 2: Mastery; Stage 3: Optimization

In this volume, cognitive scientist Stellan Ohlsson presents a unified theory of the mind's response to complex, turbulent environments.

Cover; DEEP LEARNING; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART ONE INTRODUCTION; 1 The Need to Override Experience; A CLOCK SO TURBULENT; LEARNING IN A TURBULENT WORLD; DEEP LEARNING; 2 The Nature of the Enterprise; CLOSING THE ESCAPE ROUTES; THE ARCHITECTURE OF COGNITION: THE BASICS; The Centrality of Representation; Functions and Processes; The Necessity of Control; The Turing-Newell Vision; EXPLAINING CHANGE; Componential Explanations; The Repertoire of Learning Mechanisms; Triggering Conditions; Patterns as Explanatory Targets; Theory Articulation

Challenges for Componential ExplanationsCriteria of Adequacy; THE PATH AHEAD; PART TWO CREATIVITY; 3 The Production of Novelty; THE CREATIVITY QUESTIONS; How Is Novelty Possible?; What Is Creative About Creativity?; Products; Individuals; Processes; What Gives Direction to an Act of Creation?; Why and How Is Creativity Limited?; Four Creativity Questions; THEORIES OF NOVELTY PRODUCTION; Novelty Through Combination; Novelty Through Accumulation; Accumulation Through Variation-Selection?; Accumulation Through Heuristic Search; Evaluation of Accumulation Theories; Novelty Through Restructuring

A REPERTOIRE OF IDEAS4 Creative Insight:…