Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 12 of 68
Fodor: the mind as task-specific modules
Fortunately, cognitive brain functions are not part of a complex mush that cannot be decomposed. Many have argued that our brain is structured rather like an interconnected set of sub-computers. Some of these sub-computers seem to work independently, which is good news for Al. The psychologist Jerry Fodor, in the 1980s, proposed that the mind is largely composed of a set of task-specific modules.