Towards a Theory of Thinking

Building Blocks for a Conceptual Framework

By: Britta Glatzeder (Editor), Vinod Goel (Editor), Albrecht Von Muller (Editor)

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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.

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Perspectives on Thinking
Problem Solving	p. 3
Heuristic Bias, Conflict, and Rationality in Decision-Making	p. 23
Analogical Processes in Human Thinking and Learning	p. 35
A Gestalt Perspective on the Psychology of Thinking	p. 49
Thought and Reality: A Philosophical Conjecture About Some Fundamental Features of Human Thinking	p. 59
Components of Thinking
Categorization and Object Shape	p. 73
Comparison	p. 103
Causa1 Thinking	p. 123
Conditionals: Their Meaning and Their Use in Reasoning	p. 135
Thinking and Memory	p. 147
Perception the Brain	p. 161
Onto- and Phylogenetic Considerations
A Developmental Perspective on Modularity	p. 179
Theory of Mind	p. 189
The Development of Metacognitive Competences	p. 203
Understanding Apes to Understand Humans: The Case of Object-Object Relations	p. 215
lPart IV
Socializing Cognition	p. 233
Thinking and Language: A View from Cognitive Semio-Linguistics	p. 251
Thinking and Emotion: Affective Modulation of Cognitive Processing Modes	p. 261
Cultural Differences in Thinking Styles	p. 279
Modeling and Neurobiological Aspects
Natural Selection in the Brain	p. 291
Value and Self-Referential Control: Necessary Ingredients for the Autonomous Development of Flexible Intelligence	p. 323
Cortical Connectivity: The Infrastructure of Thoughts	p. 337
Models as Tools to Aid Thinking	p. 347
Index	p. 375
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