Physical computation and cognitive science [electronic resource] / Nir Fresco.

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Physical computation and cognitive science [electronic resource] / Nir Fresco.

9783642413759 electronic book
3642413757 electronic book
9783642413742

Heidelberg : Springer, 2014.

English

1 online resource (xxii, 229 pages) : illustrations.

10.1007/978-3-642-41375-9 doi

Q342

006.3

This book presents a study of digital computation in contemporary cognitive science. Digital computation is a highly ambiguous concept, as there is no common core definition for it in cognitive science. Since this concept plays a central role in cognitive theory, an adequate cognitive explanation requires an explicit account of digital computation. More specifically, it requires an account of how digital computation is implemented in physical systems. The main challenge is to deliver an account encompassing the multiple types of existing models of computation without ending up in pancomputationalism, that is, the view that every physical system is a digital computing system. This book shows that only two accounts, among the ones examined by the author, are adequate for explaining physical computation. One of them is the instructional information processing account, which is developed here for the first time.

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