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dc.contributor.authorDartnall, Terence
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:45:29Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:45:29Z
dc.date.issued2000
dc.date.modified2010-07-26T06:51:52Z
dc.identifier.issn09246495
dc.identifier.doi10.1023/A:1008398403730
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/3245
dc.description.abstractThe confusion between cognitive states and the content of cognitive states that gives rise to psychologism also gives rise to reverse psychologism. Weak reverse psychologism says that we can study cognitive states by studying content - for instance, that we can study the mind by studying linguistics or logic. This attitude is endemic in cognitive science and linguistic theory. Strong reverse psychologism says that we can generate cognitive states by giving computers representations that express the content of cognitive states and that play a role in causing appropriate behaviour. This gives us strong representational, classical AI (REPSCAI), and I argue that it cannot succeed. This is not, as Searle claims in his Chinese Room Argument, because syntactic manipulation cannot generate content. Syntactic manipulation can generate content, and this is abundantly clear in the Chinese Room scenano. REPSCAI cannot succeed because inner content is not sufficient for cognition, even when the representations that carry the content play a role in generating appropriate behaviour.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherKluwer Academic Publishers
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands, Italy
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom31
dc.relation.ispartofpageto52
dc.relation.ispartofjournalMinds and Machines
dc.relation.ispartofvolume10
dc.subject.fieldofresearchInformation and Computing Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology and Cognitive Sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPhilosophy and Religious Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode08
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode17
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode22
dc.titleReverse Psychologism, Cognition and content
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, School of Information and Communication Technology
gro.date.issued2000
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDartnall, Terence H.


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