David danks unifying the mind cognitive representations as graphical models mit press 2014 287pp 4000 hbk isbn 9780262027991 reviewed by steven horst wesleyan university the two main themes of david dankss book are nicely summarized by its title. Unifying the mind cognitive representations as graphical models the mit press english edition ebook david danks amazonde kindle shop. We now have the pieces in place to express particular areas of cognition as operations on cognitive representations structured as graphical models and to actually understand what that means we begin in this chapter with causal cognition causation is one of the unifying threads of our cognition sloman 2005 we interpret disparate events as parts of a coherent causal structure we use our . A novel proposal that the unified nature of our cognition can be partially explained by a cognitive architecture based on graphical models our ordinary everyday thinking requires an astonishing range of cognitive activities yet our cognition seems to take place seamlessly