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0. Quick Overview

This section will serve to orient us to the computational IDA model on which the conceptual model of how minds work is based.

0.1 The IDA Technology

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1. Getting Started

Here we’ll find explanations for important preliminary concepts needed in order to understand how minds work

1.1 Minds, Agents, Senses and Actions

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1.2 Brains, Ontologies and Virtual Machines

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1.3 An Ontology for Cognition

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2. IDA Models the Human Mind

Here we begin the meat of the model, discussing its architecture, its theoretical background, its “atom of cognition” and how it helps to explain how minds work.

2.1 IDA and her Architecture

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2.2 Global Workspace Theory

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2.3 The IDA Cognitive Cycle

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2.4 The IDA Model of Cognition

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3. Mechanisms to Think With

Here we’ll explore several different “mechanisms of mind” that will help us to understand the IDA model of mind in more detail.

3.1 Pandemonium Theory

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3.2 The Copycat Architecture

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3.3 Sparse Distributed Memory

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3.4 Schema Mechanism

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3.5 Behavior Networks

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4. What Does Biology Say?

While neuroscience, by itself, can’t explain how minds work, it’s an important underpinning, so that knowing a little about it can help.

4.1 Neuroscience

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4.2 Neurobiological Non-linear Complex Systems

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5. Expanding IDA’s Cognitive Cycle 

Finally we’ll begin a detailed explanation of how mind work by looking inside a “cognitive atom”, the elementary building block of cognition.

5.1 Sensing and Perceiving

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5.2 Working and Episodic Memories

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5.3 "Consciousness"

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5.4 Memories and Learning

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6.How to Think at a Higher-Level

Here we’ll begin to see how mind combine “cognitive atoms” to produce higher level thought processes.

6.1 Deliberation and Volition

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6.2 Automization

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7.Explaining Mind with the IDA Model

In this section we’ll sample explanations of various though processes as they are produced by the model of mind we’ve been exploring.

7.1 The IDA Model: A Tool to Think With

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8.Learning with the IDA Model

Here we’ll explore several modes of learning that play such an important role in how minds work.

8.1 The IDA and LIDA Models

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