Dynamic Systems and Paradise Regained, or How to avoid being a calculator [Book Review]

J. Of Experimental and Theoretical AI 11 (4):473-478 (1999)
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The new kid on the block in cognitive science these days is dynamic systems. This way of thinking about the mind is, as usual, radically opposed to computationalism - - the hypothesis that thinking is computing. The use of dynamic systems is just the latest in a series of attempts, from Searle's Chinese Room Argument, through the weirdnesses of postmodernism, to overthrown computationalism, which as we all know is a perfectly nice hypothesis about the mind that never hurt anyone.

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A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action.David Morris, E. Thelen & L. B. Smith - 1997 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 11 (2).
Mind As Motion.T. van Gelder & Robert Port (eds.) - 1995 - MIT Press.

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