India, April 11 -- Most of us have a fundamental understanding of how the physical world works. Early lessons in physics and chemistry help explain our reality in terms of concepts such as force, acceleration and gravity. We don't have the same fluency with the concepts needed to understand the world inside us: the Laws of Thought. While the story of how mathematics has been used to reveal the mysteries of the universe is familiar, the story of how it has been used to study the mind is not. Tom Griffiths, head of Princeton's AI Lab and a renowned expert in the field of cognitive science, explains the three major approaches to formalising thought - rules and symbols, neural networks, and probability and statistics - introducing each idea through the stories of the people behind it. For those seeking to engage in informed conversations about thought, language and learning in the age of artificial intelligence, The Laws of Thought is an essential read....