Add to ORKGndaQida.liu.se One of the weak points of the present critics of AI is their lack of an alternative cognitive theory. In the paper the outline of such a theory is sketched, based on (one reading) of Piaget's genetic epistemology. This is used to clarify the ambiguity of the terms 'symbol ' and 'representation', thereby making it possible to suggest a reconciliation of the positions of the critics and defenders of the representational theory of the mind. 1
Computation is interpretable symbol manipulation. Symbols are objects that are manipulated on the ba...
The relationship between verbal mental representations and action, perception and emotion is discuss...
Good old-fashioned cognitive science characterizes human thinking as symbol manipulation qua computa...
This paper is in a form unconventional in modern journals but traditional for the discussion of fou...
In the nineteen eighties, a lot of ink was spent on the question of symbol grounding, largely trigge...
The symbol grounding problem raises its head in the fields of the philosophy of AI, philosophy of ps...
Thirty years ago, I elaborated on a position that could be seen as a compromise between an "extreme,...
reliance on internal representation. Further discussion showed that many of the hard prob-lems encou...
Abstract. Over the past several decades, the philosophical community has witnessed the emergence of ...
The Turing test, the frame problem, the Chinese room argument, symbol grounding, the role of represe...
According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is per-haps the most importa...
Item does not contain fulltextIn recent years the cognitive science community has witnessed the rise...
Sense-perceptions do not have to be deciphered if their contents are to be uploaded, the reason bein...
The computational theory of mind - the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that co...
One of the key claims I have defended previously is that longstanding arguments over whether concept...
Computation is interpretable symbol manipulation. Symbols are objects that are manipulated on the ba...
The relationship between verbal mental representations and action, perception and emotion is discuss...
Good old-fashioned cognitive science characterizes human thinking as symbol manipulation qua computa...
This paper is in a form unconventional in modern journals but traditional for the discussion of fou...
In the nineteen eighties, a lot of ink was spent on the question of symbol grounding, largely trigge...
The symbol grounding problem raises its head in the fields of the philosophy of AI, philosophy of ps...
Thirty years ago, I elaborated on a position that could be seen as a compromise between an "extreme,...
reliance on internal representation. Further discussion showed that many of the hard prob-lems encou...
Abstract. Over the past several decades, the philosophical community has witnessed the emergence of ...
The Turing test, the frame problem, the Chinese room argument, symbol grounding, the role of represe...
According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is per-haps the most importa...
Item does not contain fulltextIn recent years the cognitive science community has witnessed the rise...
Sense-perceptions do not have to be deciphered if their contents are to be uploaded, the reason bein...
The computational theory of mind - the belief that the mind can be likened to a computer and that co...
One of the key claims I have defended previously is that longstanding arguments over whether concept...
Computation is interpretable symbol manipulation. Symbols are objects that are manipulated on the ba...
The relationship between verbal mental representations and action, perception and emotion is discuss...
Good old-fashioned cognitive science characterizes human thinking as symbol manipulation qua computa...