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In the preceding chapters, we discussed various aspects of cognition. In each of these chapters, we tried to understand shortcomings of the conventional perspective. Similarly, in each of these chapters, we discussed how the proposed model offers new insights into these aspects of cognition. Therefore, in this chapter, we will discuss how these different aspects of cognition are integrated into the notion of self and how our cognitive faculty operates and synchronizes different types of cognitive processes which seem to operate in parallel and with different degrees of autonomy. The conventional perspective accepts the notion of modularity, but without its formal description. This chapter outlines a topological description of our cognitive faculty as a unitary system running its various components in harmony. This formal description of cognitive faculty is demonstrated to be congruent with naturalism and the Darwinian paradigm.
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Chhaya, P.J.N. (2024). Cognitive Architecture: Modularity of Mind and Its Integration. In: On the Origin and Nature of Cognition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51105-9_8
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