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All information processing entails computation, or, If R. A. Fisher had been a cognitive scientist . . .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Eric Dietrich  and
Arthur B. Markman
Eric Dietrich
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902 dietrich@binghamton.edu
Arthur B. Markman
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027 markman@psych.columbia.edu
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Abstract

We argue that the dynamical and computational hypotheses are compatible and in fact need each other: they are about different aspects of cognition. However, only computationalism is about the information-processing aspect. We then argue that any form of information processing relying on matching and comparing, as cognition does, must use discrete representations and computations defined over them.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 637 - 638
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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