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Real rules are conscious

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Axel Cleeremans  and
Arnaud Destrebecqz
Axel Cleeremans*
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Research Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, B-1050, Belgium http://srsc.ulb.ac.be/axcWWW/axc.html
Arnaud Destrebecqz*
Affiliation:
Cognitive Science Research Unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, B-1050, Belgium http://srsc.ulb.ac.be/axcWWW/axc.html
*
axcleer@ulb.ac.be
adestre@ulb.ac.be
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Abstract

In general, we agree with Pothos's claim that similarity and rule knowledge are best viewed as situated on the extreme points of a single representational continuum. However, we contend that a distinction can be made between “rule-like” and “rule-based” knowledge: Rule-based, symbolic knowledge is necessarily conscious when it is applied. Awareness thus provides a useful criterion for distinguishing between sensitivity to functional similarity and knowledge of symbolic rules.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 2005 , pp. 19 - 20
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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