Jerry Fodor

The mind is not a general-purpose creative system; it's a collection of domain-specific creative systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose consciousness system; it's a collection of domain-specific consciousness systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose self-awareness system; it's a collection of domain-specific self-awareness systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose free will system; it's a collection of domain-specific free will systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose personal identity system; it's a collection of domain-specific personal identity systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose subjective experience system; it's a collection of domain-specific subjective experience systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose phenomenal consciousness system; it's a collection of domain-specific phenomenal consciousness systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose access consciousness system; it's a collection of domain-specific access consciousness systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose self-consciousness system; it's a collection of domain-specific self-consciousness systems.

The mind is not a general-purpose reflective consciousness system; it's a collection of domain-specific reflective consciousness systems.

The mind is a computational system, and understanding cognition requires grasping its algorithmic structure.

Modularity of mind is not just a hypothesis; it's the key to explaining how we process information so efficiently.

If you're not puzzled by consciousness, you're not thinking hard enough about it.

Semantics is about meaning, but meaning isn't just in the words; it's in the mental representations they evoke.

Cognitive science without philosophy is like a ship without a rudder—adrift in data.

The brain doesn't care about your intuitions; it follows the rules of computation.

Abstraction is the soul of cognitive theory; without it, we're lost in the weeds of neurology.

Language of thought is not a metaphor—it's the literal medium of our mental life.

In philosophy of mind, the hard problems are the fun ones; the easy ones are just bookkeeping.

Rationalism isn't dead; it's just waiting for better computers to prove it right.