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Associative Engines - Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change (Paperback)
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Associative Engines - Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change (Paperback)
Series: A Bradford Book
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Clark charts a fundamental shift from a static, inner-code-oriented
conception of the subject matter of cognitive science to a more
dynamic, developmentally rich, process-oriented view. Connectionist
approaches, Andy Clark argues, are driving cognitive science toward
a radical reconception of its explanatory endeavor. At the heart of
this reconception lies a shift toward a new and more deeply
developmental vision of the mind-a vision that has important
implications for the philosophical and psychological understanding
of the nature of concepts, of mental causation, and of
representational change. Combining philosophical argument,
empirical results, and interdisciplinary speculations, Clark charts
a fundamental shift from a static, inner-code-oriented conception
of the subject matter of cognitive science to a more dynamic,
developmentally rich, process-oriented view. Clark argues that this
shift makes itself felt in two main ways. First, structured
representations are seen as the products of temporally extended
cognitive activity and not as the representational bedrock (an
innate symbol system or language of thought) upon which all
learning is based. Second, the relation between thoughts (as
described by folk psychology) and inner computational states is
loosened as a result of the fragmented and distributed nature of
the connectionist representation of concepts. Other issues Clark
raises include the nature of innate knowledge, the conceptual
commitments of folk psychology, and the use and abuse of
higher-level analyses of connectionist networks.
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