Interactive Effects of Explicit Emergent Structure: A Major Challenge for Cognitive Computational Modeling

Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (2):206-216 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

David Marr's (1982) three‐level analysis of computational cognition argues for three distinct levels of cognitive information processing—namely, the computational, representational, and implementational levels. But Marr's levels are—and were meant to be—descriptive, rather than interactive and dynamic. For this reason, we suggest that, had Marr been writing today, he might well have gone even farther in his analysis, including the emergence of structure—in particular, explicit structure at the conceptual level—from lower levels, and the effect of explicit emergent structures on the level (or levels) that gave rise to them. The message is that today's cognitive scientists need not only to understand how emergent structures—in particular, explicit emergent structures at the cognitive level—develop but also to understand how they feed back on the sub‐structures from which they emerged.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,386

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

The Emergent Order.Kevin Sharpe & Jonathan Walgate - 2003 - Zygon 38 (2):411-433.
Emergence in Cognitive Science.James L. McClelland - 2010 - Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (4):751-770.
Computational Models of Emergent Properties.John Symons - 2008 - Minds and Machines 18 (4):475-491.
Can Computational Goals Inform Theories of Vision?Barton L. Anderson - 2015 - Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (2):274-286.
Thinking in groups.Todd M. Gureckis & Robert L. Goldstone - 2006 - Pragmatics and Cognition 14 (2):293-311.
Reentrant emergence.Steven Ravett Brown - 2009 - American Philosophical Quarterly 46 (3):225 - 238.
Two conceptions of the emergence of phonemic structure.Irene Appelbaum - 2004 - Foundations of Science 9 (4):415-435.
The emergence of group cognition.Georg Theiner & Tim O'Connor - 2010 - In Antonella Corradini & Timothy O'Connor (eds.), Emergence in science and philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 6--78.
Marr's Attacks: On Reductionism and Vagueness.Chris Eliasmith & Carter Kolbeck - 2015 - Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (2):323-335.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-04-03

Downloads
49 (#317,389)

6 months
4 (#790,687)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?