Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

Dual-process theories and hybrid systems


Ilkka Pyysiäinen a1
a1 Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland ilkka.pyysiainen@helsinki.fi http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/eng/staff.htm

Abstract

The distinction between such differing approaches to cognition as connectionism and rule-based models is paralleled by a distinction between two basic modes of cognition postulated in the so-called dual-process theories. Integrating these theories with insights from hybrid systems might help solve the dilemma of combining the demands of evolutionary plausibility and computational universality. No single approach alone can achieve this.