Robert Rupert (University of Colorado, Boulder)
In domains ranging from vision to social cognition to logical inference, cognitive scientists often model behavioral data as the output of multiple processing streams. Many philosophers of mind marginalize this trend, claiming that it reveals only the quirkiness and complexity of the processes that implement what is — at a higher, personal level — a unified, rationally coherent mind. In this talk, I argue that we have no reason to believe in such a personal level and that, to the contrary, the mind is a loosely integrated collection of processes that encompass a teeming swarm of often redundant representations.
