Published In
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1998
Subjects
Cognition, Dynamics, Human information processing, Computational biology
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.
DOI
10.1017/S0140525X98421733
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12318
Citation Details
Mitchell, Melanie. "Theories of structure versus theories of change." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21.05 (1998): 645-646.
Description
Appeared in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 21, issue 5, published by Cambridge University Press. Article may be found at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=30667&fileId=S0140525X98421733.