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Digital computers versus dynamical systems: A conflation of distinctions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Gerard O'Brien
Gerard O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, [email protected] chomsky.arts.adelaide.edu.au/Philosophy/gobrien/gobrien.htm
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Abstract

The distinction at the heart of van Gelder's target article is one between digital computers and dynamical systems, but this distinction conflates two more fundamental distinctions in cognitive science that should be kept apart. When this conflation is undone, it becomes apparent that the computational hypothesis is not as dominant in contemporary cognitive science as van Gelder contends; nor has the dynamical hypothesis been neglected.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 648 - 649
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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