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Are Actions Founded on Representations? Cognitive Science and Practice

Author(s): Witold Płotka
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Cognitive Science

Summary/Abstract: The article, by referring to the computational theory of thinking and Fodor’s Representational Theory of Mind, argues that both theories presuppose an understanding of activity as a process reducible to a set of rules. The author rejects the presupposition and sketches an alternative view on action; the alternative view justifies a necessity of building connectionist models of neural networks and it leads to a formulation of hypothesis of extended, embodied and embedded mind.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 159-165
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish