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Lecture 2: Paradigms of Cognitive Science - David Vernon

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What does a good cognitive system do?<br />

Cognitivism<br />

Represents the stable truths about the real<br />

world, and solves problems posed to it<br />

Connectionism<br />

Develops emergent properties that yield stable<br />

solutions to tasks<br />

Dynamical<br />

Systems<br />

Becomes an active and adaptive part <strong>of</strong> an<br />

ongoing and continually changing world<br />

Enactive<br />

Systems<br />

Becomes part <strong>of</strong> an existing on-going world <strong>of</strong><br />

meaning (in ontogeny) or shapes a new one (in<br />

phylogeny)<br />

Copyright © 2012 <strong>David</strong> <strong>Vernon</strong>

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