For decades, Cognitive Science has been grappling with the issue of how to best
understand the interactions between symbolic and subsymbolic cognition. In this
ambitious and wide-ranging book, [Ron] Sun boldly takes it as a starting point
that our minds are dual and implements his hypothesis as a hybrid computational
model that he then compares the behavior of with that of human subjects exposed
to implicit learning tasks. The result is a sometimes exhilarating romp through
many issues central to contemporary cognitive science, including consciousness,
the role of culture and embodiment in cognition, and  the interactions between
bottom-up and top-down processing. Whether or not one agrees with Sun's
perspective, this book will challenge anyone with an interest in understanding
how the mind works.

 --- Axel Cleermans, Universitè Libre de Bruxelles