The mind thing or the mentaloid: comparative and critical analysis of the concept of mind in cognitive psychology

Abstract

This article aims at a general and sensitive, but rigorous and critical approach to the concepts of mind that have been thrown by the paradigms of the cognitive sciences, in their quest to understand the mind and its processes: the computational paradigm and the connectionist perspective. Based on the degree work "The mind or the mentaloid: comparative and critical analysis of the concept of mind in cognitive psychology, this article addresses one of the main lines of discussion of those raised in that work, establishing some of the differences and similarities compared to the concept of mind in cognitive psychology, particularly from the perspective of Fodory his model of mind vs. the model proposed by connectionism.