Moreover, neuroscience was working at the wrong level: tiny neuronal structures were just too distant, conceptually, from the macroscopic components of thought, things like emotions and beliefs.
ACT-R's selection mechanism, its expected value equation, has had many successes (see, for example [Anderson, J. R., & Lebiere, C. (Eds).. (1998). Atomic components of thought.
In this paper, we present a computational account of the intention superiority effect using the ACT-R cognitive architecture [Atomic components of thought. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998].
Speaking of consciousness, while we are very far from being able to capture its essence, researches have been able to tease out various components of thought in subjects' brains using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI.
But as is often the case in Wittgenstein's philosophical work, it does not follow from this scornful or dismissive attitude that he has no interest in the etiology of the idea, or in excavating the hidden steps or components of thought that have led some to this idea.
In short: the components of thoughts can sometimes be analyzed in terms of simpler or more general constituents, in a way that brings to light previously-hidden relations of logical entailment.
An important way to differentiating their thinking is through another component of strategic thought, the threat equation (threat = intent X capability).
Walking, either on a treadmill or around Stanford's leafy campus, bolstered divergent thinking: the free-roaming, idea-generating component of creative thought.
The humanist and classical scholar Justus Lipsius (Joost Lips) (1547 1606), described by his admiring correspondent Michel de Montaigne as one of the most learned men of his day (Essays II.12), was the founding father of Neostoicism, a key component of European thought in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
