Extended Cognition and the Dynamics of Algorithmic Skills

Simone Pinna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXVII, 122 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-84755-9 (ISBN)

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This book describes a novel methodology for studying algorithmic skills, intended as cognitive activities related to rule-based symbolic transformation, and argues that some human computational abilities may be interpreted and analyzed as genuine examples of extended cognition. It shows that the performance of these abilities relies not only on innate neurocognitive systems or language-related skills, but also on external tools and general agent-environment interactions. Further, it asserts that a low-level analysis, based on a set of core neurocognitive systems linking numbers and language, is not sufficient to explain some specific forms of high-level numerical skills, like those involved in algorithm execution. To this end, it reports on the design of a cognitive architecture for modeling all the relevant features involved in the execution of algorithmic strategies, including external tools, such as paper and pencils. The first part of the book discusses the philosophical premises for endorsing and justifying a position in philosophy of mind that links a modified form of computationalism with some recent theoretical and scientific developments, like those introduced by the so-called dynamical approach to cognition. The second part is dedicated to the description of a Turing-machine-inspired cognitive architecture, expressly designed to formalize all kinds of algorithmic strategies.

Turing's Theory of Computation.- Cognition as Organism-environment Interaction.- Ecological Approach and Dynamical Approach.- Modeling Algorithmic Skills: the Bidimensional Turing Machine.- BTM Models of Algorithmic Skills.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Zusatzinfo	XXVII, 122 p. 5 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	243 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Schlagworte	Agent-environment Interactions • Bidimensional Turing Machines • BTM model • Cognitive Architecture • Computational Functionalism • Digital Computers • Discrete-time-and-space Dynamical System • Dynamical Approach to Cognition • Ecological Functionalism • Ecological Psychology • Feed-forward Neural Networks • Formal Model of Affordance • Human Computer • Mental Computation • Models of Algorithmic Skills • Organism-environment Interaction • Pencil-and-Paper Arithmetic
ISBN-10	3-319-84755-4 / 3319847554
ISBN-13	978-3-319-84755-9 / 9783319847559
Zustand	Neuware