The assertion that manipulating formal symbols is necessary and sufficient for general intelligence.

George Miller's theory that organizing information into discrete units overcomes structural memory limits.

An abstract computational model that reads, edits, and manipulates symbols on an infinite tape.

The cognitive process responsible for the immediate manipulation and temporary storage of information.

The directedness of the mind toward objects or stimuli in the external world.

An interdisciplinary field merging philosophy, linguistics, psychology, AI, neuroscience, and anthropology.

The ability to focus on one stimulus while actively filtering out other competing environmental noise.

David Marr's second level involving the formal procedures or rule-based systems manipulating information.

The cognitive ability to pinpoint specific auditory stimuli while filtering out surrounding noise.

The perspective that the human mind functions as a sequential computational pipeline.