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Imposed intelligibility and strong claims concerning cognitive systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Roy Lachman
Roy Lachman*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of Houston, Houston, TX77204-5341
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rlachman@uh.edu
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Abstract

The computational hypothesis was formulated with due concern for limits and is consistent with imposed intelligibility doctrines. Theories are products of scientific work that impose human classifications and formalisms on nature. The claim that “cognitive agents are dynamical systems” is untenable. Dynamical formalisms imposed on a natural system, given an approximate fit, serve as an explanatory framework and render a represented system predictable and intelligible.

Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 294 - 295
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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References

Commentary on Tim van Gelder (1998). The dynamical hypothesis in cognitive science. BBS 21(5):615–665.