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Newell's program, like Hilbert's, is dead; let's move on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2004

Yingrui Yang  and
Selmer Bringsjord
Yingrui Yang*
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12180
Selmer Bringsjord*
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12180http://www.rpi.edu/~brings
*
yangyri@rpi.edu
selmer@rpi.edu
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Abstract:

We draw an analogy between Hilbert's program (HP) for mathematics and Newell's program (NP) for cognitive modeling. The analogy reveals that NP, like HP before it, is fundamentally flawed. The only alternative is a program anchored by an admission that cognition is more than computation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 5 , October 2003 , pp. 627
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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