Edmund Blair Bolles

Work

• So Much to Say, regarding the language of children from birth to age five. It proposes that children are driven to talk because they have "something to say," have private emotions and thoughts to report.
• Remembering and Forgetting, which opens with the sentence, "Remembering is an act of imagination." Bolles makes a sharp distinction between computer memory and human remembering.
• A Second Way of Knowing, about perception, which Bolles defines as knowing the meaning of what the senses present. The book contrasts the sensory-based knowledge of animal and humans with a view of symbolically based computation available to computers.