Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:

organizing, single, user, learning, granted, modules, nothing, blank, CEO, self, tools, localized, facial, mechanisms, evolutionary, tasks

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if the conscious         self is not the thing directing behavior and directing thought, then what is doing this?

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the answer that comes from the modular view of the mind is:               nothing in particular

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this doesn't mean nothing, it just means no             single thing

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rather, there are a number of things called               modules

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they take turns exerting decisive on our thought, our feelings, and behavior

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there is no conscious self picking the module that gets to be in charge at any given moment

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it's more like the modules are competing and seizing control of the system in a kind of free-for-all, self-                    organizing system

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1980s modern                         evolutionary psychology

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critics of evolutionary psychology

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asking why we needed to talk of the role of genes in shaping the human mind

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the human mind is a           blank slate

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a general-purpose                 learning machine

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response

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no, you have to have a number of built-in, functional                     mechanisms

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support from artificial intelligence

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AI has learning since the 1950s how hard it is to design into machine functions that we take for               granted

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humans don't spend a lot of time puzzling over how we recognize people's faces, it seems to just happen

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Swiss army knife metaphor

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the brain has different modules to perform different           tasks

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but there are three main ways in which the modular view of the brain is not like a Swiss army knife

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1. modules are not                   localized

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each blade defines a particular space and are individualized

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modules are not so localized in the brain

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the             facial recognition module is not in one place and no where else

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it's a distributed network

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2. modules interact and communicate with each other

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if you see somebody you know, you also begin to interpret what they mean

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the semantic interpretation module takes over from the facial recognition module

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3. modules can be more than           tools

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blades are just tools, if there is no         user, they have no use

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but modules mobilize other modules

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if we find enough modules and find out how they work and how they work together, we may have a more useful concept of the self than the       CEO consciousness