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.

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.

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X98421733

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12318

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