EMPIRICAL IDEALISM: A MODERN FOUNDATION FOR THE SCIENCE OF THE MIND*

摘要

Since science studies the physical, material world and reduces physical processes to mechanical principles, then a science of man would require a mechanical man. Cognitive psychology arose out of the tradition of cybernetics as an attempt to explain man's cognitive ability by importing concepts from computer science - the computational model of mind is essential to the pursuit of cognitive psychology. [...] cognition is the product of consciousness in the same way that attraction is the product of gravity.