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Models as implementations of a theory, rather than simulations: Dancing to a different drummer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2002

Stan Franklin
Stan Franklin
Affiliation:
Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152 [email protected] http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~franklin
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Abstract

Robots, as well as software agents, can be of use in biology as implementations of a theory rather than as simulations of specific real world target systems. Such implementations generate hypotheses rather than representing them. Their behavior is not predicted, but rather observed, and is not expected to duplicate that of a target system. Scientific knowledge is gained through the testing of generated hypotheses.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 6 , December 2001 , pp. 1059
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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