From: Immortalist on
Modularity of mind is the notion that a mind may, at least in part, be
composed of separate innate structures which have established,
evolutionarily developed functional purposes. Proponents believe this
view is implied by Noam Chomsky's concept of a universal, generative
grammar. Such universal features of language imply the existence of an
underlying "language acquisition device" structure in the brain. This
device is postulated to be autonomous and specialized for learning
language rapidly—a module.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_of_mind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_module

According to the massive modularity thesis, the mind is modular (in
some sense) through and through, including the parts responsible for
high-level cognition functions like belief fixation, problem-solving,
planning, and the like.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modularity-mind/
http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/forums/seminar3_spring05/Fodor_1983.pdf
From: Monsieur Turtoni on
On Jun 30, 9:34 pm, Immortalist <reanimater_2...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> Modularity of mind is the notion that a mind may, at least in part, be
> composed of separate innate structures which have established,
> evolutionarily developed functional purposes. Proponents believe this
> view is implied by Noam Chomsky's concept of a universal, generative
> grammar. Such universal features of language imply the existence of an
> underlying "language acquisition device" structure in the brain. This
> device is postulated to be autonomous and specialized for learning
> language rapidly—a module.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_of_mindhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_module
>
> According to the massive modularity thesis, the mind is modular (in
> some sense) through and through, including the parts responsible for
> high-level cognition functions like belief fixation, problem-solving,
> planning, and the like.
>
> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modularity-mind/
> http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/forums/seminar3_spring05/Fodor_1983.pdf

What are we de-skepticizing with this (well?) known phenomena in the
brains armory of functions? Some sort of allusion to the notion that
there's some soul food in the brains matter? Perhaps I'll wake up one
day and remember that i don't remember? How would my soul food slice
in the MRI account for those neurons taking a vacation? As another
perhaps, we'd be able to bottle up those buzzing bees of selfhood,
sleeping at the wheel and format them onto shrikeback's DVD of a self-
made flag and burp up HAL into existence?
From: Zerkon on
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:34:54 -0700, Immortalist wrote:

> Modularity of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity

a of of things.

So if this word and concept can be so generally applied how can it not be
just slang of the moment?

What isn't composed of "separate innate structures"? Modularity of
existence, as one example, the entire human body as another. So it comes
down to 'mind' and what this word means.
From: Zerkon on
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:20:45 -0700, Monsieur Turtoni wrote:

> What are we de-skepticizing with this (well?) known phenomena in the
> brains armory of functions? Some sort of allusion to the notion that
> there's some soul food in the brains matter? Perhaps I'll wake up one
> day and remember that i don't remember? How would my soul food slice in
> the MRI account for those neurons taking a vacation? As another perhaps,
> we'd be able to bottle up those buzzing bees of selfhood, sleeping at
> the wheel and format them onto shrikeback's DVD of a self- made flag and
> burp up HAL into existence?

LOL.. did you copyright this? If so how much per use is "Buzzing bees of
selfhood"?