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Models as Parts of Distributed Cognitive Systems
Recent work on the role of models in science has revealed a great many kinds of models performing many different roles. In this paper I suggest that...
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The Construction of ‘Reality’ in the Robot: Constructivist Perspectives on Situated Artificial Intelligence and Adaptive Robotics
This paper discusses different approaches incognitive science and artificial intelligenceresearch from the perspective of radicalconstructivism,...
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Cognitive Explanation
In the previous chapter I argued that there is no reason to think that causal powers are ever individuated relationally. Thus, to the extent that a...
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Optimization and simplicity: Computational vision and biological explanation
David Marr's theory of vision has been a rich source of inspiration, fascination and confusion. I will suggest that some of this confusion can be...
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Whence Perceptual Meaning? A Cartography of Current Ideas
This essay was written for the purpose of providing a minimal common ground for discussion. It is, of necessity, an ambitious attempt to give a...
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Metered Poetry, the Brain, and Time
This essay brings together an old subject, a new body of knowledge, and a scientific paradigm, which have not previously been associated with one...
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Complexity and Organization
In his now classic paper, ‘The Architecture of Complexity’, Herbert Simon observed that “... In the face of complexity, an in-principle reductionist...