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Cognitive incrementalism: The big issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2019

Andy Clark
Andy Clark
Affiliation:
Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology (PNP) Program, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130 [email protected]
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Abstract

Neural organization raises, in an especially clear way, a major problem confronting contemporary cognitive science. The problem (the “big issue” of my title) is: What is the relation between the strategies used to solve basic problems of perception and action and those used to solve more abstract or “cognitive” problems? Is there a smooth, incremental route from what Arbib et al. call “instinctual schemas” to higher-level kinds of cognitive prowess? I argue that, despite some suggestive comments, Arbib et al. do not resolve this issue.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , August 2000 , pp. 536 - 537
Copyright
2000 Cambridge University Press

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