This chapter is aimed at stressing a condition, i.e., cognitive plausibility, which complex computational psychology should satisfy in order to be compatible with the evidence of neuroscience and biology in general. The required condition says that the psychological (and hence linguistic) computations have to be (1) tractable and (2) fit to the ordinary situations that they are encoding. Brains have to do with concrete contexts, that is, boundaries in space and time and the influence of the associative networks embodied in the individual’s past. They are not idealized machines in front of an idealized world, but flesh and blood in search for life and survival.

The Case for Cognitive Plausibility

PERCONTI, Pietro
2016-01-01

Abstract

This chapter is aimed at stressing a condition, i.e., cognitive plausibility, which complex computational psychology should satisfy in order to be compatible with the evidence of neuroscience and biology in general. The required condition says that the psychological (and hence linguistic) computations have to be (1) tractable and (2) fit to the ordinary situations that they are encoding. Brains have to do with concrete contexts, that is, boundaries in space and time and the influence of the associative networks embodied in the individual’s past. They are not idealized machines in front of an idealized world, but flesh and blood in search for life and survival.
2016
978-3-319-29481-0
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