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Dynamics and Cognition

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Many who advocate dynamical systems approaches to cognitive science believe themselves committed to the thesis of extended cognition and to the rejection of representation. I argue that this belief is false. In part, this misapprehension rests on a warrantless re-conception of cognition as intelligent behavior. In part also, it rests on thinking that conceptual issues can be resolved empirically. Once these issues are sorted out, the way is cleared for a dynamical systems approach to cognition that is free to retain the standard conception of cognition as taking place in the head, and over representations.

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Titel: Dynamics and Cognition
verfasst von: Lawrence A. Shapiro
Publikationsdatum: 01.08.2013
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Minds and Machines / Ausgabe 3/2013
Print ISSN: 0924-6495
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-8641
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11023-012-9290-2

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