Book contents
- Looking Ahead
- Looking Ahead
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Psychological Theories
- Part III Mathematical Theories
- Part IV Neurobiological Theories
- Part V The Future of Prediction
- Chapter 23 Lumping and Splitting
- Chapter 24 A Look Ahead for Prediction Research
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 23 - Lumping and Splitting
from Part V - The Future of Prediction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2025
- Looking Ahead
- Looking Ahead
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Part II Psychological Theories
- Part III Mathematical Theories
- Part IV Neurobiological Theories
- Part V The Future of Prediction
- Chapter 23 Lumping and Splitting
- Chapter 24 A Look Ahead for Prediction Research
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The idea that thinking, and thinking about the future, is based on logical content and the computer-like processing of variables has been a cornerstone of the cognitive revolution. The fact that so few theories of prediction and so few prediction scientists explicitly incorporate any form of symbolic rule-based inferencing into their theorizing is another indication of a true paradigm shift in the mind and brain sciences toward a new probabilistic, and at least partly associationist, nonsymbolic and non-rule-based science of the predictive mind.
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- Looking AheadThe New Science of the Predictive Mind, pp. 265 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025