How Does our Mind Work? /title>   <meta name="description" content="Presentation by Judith V. Boettcher"> <meta name="keywords" content=" distance, distance education, distance learning, distance ed, disted, de, interactive video, education, cren, boettcher, syllabus scholar, technology"> <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">  <meta name="description" content="Dr. Boettcher is an expert in distance learning and education. Included are writings and other resources for distance learning."> <meta name="keywords" content="judith, judith boettcher, online, web-ble, webble, tower, learning, distance, distance education, distance learning, distance ed, disted, faculty, development, instructional design, faculty support, de, interactive video, education, cren, boettcher, syllabus scholar, technology, faculty guide"> <META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="ALL"> <META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days"> <link href="../../styles/content.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000ff" VLINK="#800080" ALINK="#ff0000"> <table width="98%" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="center"><p><a href="../../index.htm"><img src="../../images/DfLline.gif" width="404" height="70" border="0"></a></p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" valign="top"> <table width="144" border="0"> <tr> <td width="138" align="center"><a href="../../jvb/index.html">About Dr. Boettcher</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> <p><a href="../../index.html">Recent Activities</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Services</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td><ul> <li><a href="../../services/index.html">Speaking</a></li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td><ul> <li><a href="../../services/consulting/index.html">Advising</a></li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td><ul> <li><a href="../../services/writing/index.html">Writing</a></li> </ul></td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="../../index.html">Home page</a></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td width="99%" align="left" valign="top">  <H1>How Does our Mind Work? </H1> <P> <ul> <li>New Insight: “Computational Theory of Mind” </li> <li>Knowledge, Beliefs, and Skills are “physical bits, bytes of information” </li> <li>These bits and bytes are then chunked and linked together to form symbols, patterns, and relationships. </li> <li>Information resides in patterns of data and in relationships of logic </li> <li>Insight enables us to “keep beliefs and desires in our explanations of behavior while planting them squarely in the physical universe.” (Stephen Pinker, How Does Our Mind Work, 1997 p. 25) </li> <li>Also might explain why attitudes are so resistant to change -- they are probably part of a larger long-term network of connections, a “brain oak tree”...</li> </ul> </P> <P></P> <P> <TABLE align="center"> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100> <A HREF="tsld008.htm">Previous slide</A> </TD> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=100> <A HREF="tsld010.htm">Next slide</A> </TD> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=150> <A HREF="tsld001.htm">Back to first slide</A> </TD> <TD HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=150> <A HREF="sld009.htm">View graphic version</A> </TD> </TABLE> <BR> </P>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><p> </p> <p><a href="mailto:judith@designingforlearning.info"><img src="../../images/email.gif" alt="Email Dr. Boettcher" width="210" height="20" border="0"></a><br> Revised January 15, 2006 <br> Copyright Judith V. Boettcher, 1997-2007</p></td> </tr> </table> <h1> </h1> </BODY> </HTML>