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The dynamics of what?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Fred A. Keijzer
Affiliation:
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlandskeijzer@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nlbem@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nlheijden@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl
Sacha Ben
Affiliation:
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlandskeijzer@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nlbem@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nlheijden@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl
Lex van der Heijden
Affiliation:
Unit of Experimental and Theoretical Psychology, Leiden University, 2300 RB Leiden, The Netherlandskeijzer@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nlbem@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nlheijden@rulfsw.leidenuniv.nl

Abstract

Van Gelder presents the distinction between dynamical systems and digital computers as the core issue of current developments in cognitive science. We think this distinction is much less important than a reassessment of cognition as a neurally, bodily, and environmentally embedded process. Embedded cognition lines up naturally with dynamical models, but it would also stand if combined with classic computation.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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