"In my view, the main aims of interdisciplinary research on mind and intelligence are to understand how the human mind works and to use this understanding to develop ways of making humans and machines more intelligent. If you disagree with this opinion, then we need to have a very general and hence philosophical discussion about what cognitive science is for, a question that cannot be answered just by the experimental and theoretical methods of cognitive science", Paul Thagard, Why Cognitive Science Needs Philosophy and Vice Versa