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Why computation need not be traded only for internal representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Robert S. Stufflebeam
Robert S. Stufflebeam
Affiliation:
Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program, Washington University, Campus Box 1073, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 rob@twinearth.wustl.edu
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Abstract

Although Clark & Thornton's “trading spaces” hypothesis is supposed to require trading internal representation for computation, it is not used consistently in that fashion. Not only do some of the offered computation-saving strategies turn out to be nonrepresentational, others (e.g., cultural artifacts) are external representations. Hence, C&T's hypothesis is consistent with antirepresentationalism.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 80 - 81
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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