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Theories of structure versus theories of change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

Melanie Mitchell
Melanie Mitchell
Affiliation:
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501 [email protected] www.santafe.edu/~mm
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Abstract

The dynamics/computation debate recalls a similar debate in the evolutionary biology community concerning the relative primacy of theories of structure versus theories of change. A full account of cognition will require a rapprochement between such theories and will include both computational and dynamical notions. The key to making computation relevant to cognition is not making it analog, but rather understanding how functional information-processing structures can emerge in complex dynamical systems.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 5 , October 1998 , pp. 645 - 646
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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