Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

What's in a structure?


Virgil Whitmyer a1
a1 Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Vwhitmye@indiana.edu

Abstract

Shepard's general approach provides little specific information about the implementation of laws in brains. Theories that turn on an isomorphism between some domain and the brain, of which Shepard's is one, do not provide specific detail about the implementation of the structures they propose. But such detail is a necessary part in an explanation of mind. [Shepard]