Center for Cognitive Studies Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities Universidad de Chile
There are certain metaphysical assumptions and certain desiderata scientists explicitly stated in the book, which it is proved that less are not false could lead to think that something like what Clark proposes that the mind should be, and the characteristics of science that deals with it, might be plausible. However, he has not convincingly shown that even the basic assumptions of the classical representational computational cognitive science are false, but says he does not explain, among other phenomena such as consciousness or phenomenal speed and efficiency with which we conduct our daily actions . Neither has shown that other approaches are true - connectionism, robotics, artificial life, and situated cognition and distributed - , only shows that are approximate to it more plausible that the classical, though still partial to the explanation of intelligent behavior that can somehow unite to account for the mind, according to the desiderata implicit in the text.
The problem then is not whether it is really mindware Clark believes the disorder seen in his characterization of the nature of mind and the search for new ways appropriate to address it. The underlying theme seems to be how to sort and make sense of the diversity of ideas opposed to the representational theory and classical computing. Messy bag Unregulated and tricks do not seem to be both an essential feature of the human mind, but rather reflects the difficulty of the opposing views to the classical paradigm to articulate a new vision, unified, coherent, and really explaining the mentality.
Finally, and to do justice to the author's philosophical approach, it should be recognized that, although the book's conclusion does not follow at least convincingly expressed in the preceding chapters that it is based, as said, certain desiderata Clark has tried to inform and articulate in his three previous books [ [1] ] . Whose acceptance would lead one to believe that a theory of the human mind as a causal factor of intelligent behavior, such as proposed by Clark, is whether or not true, at least plausible. General Clark's claim is that cognitive science does not relate to abstract properties, but is linked to what he called real world cognition and real-time. Desiderata would be seven he apparently believes that this eventual science of mind should satisfy. According to these, a proper science of mind should realize that:
- Cognition occurs in human biological organisms subject to change;
- Evolution has operated in such agencies in tinker mode and no engineer so that the adjustments that have been selected, have come under biological devices that historically that species of organisms have gained by exploiting the characteristics of its environment:
- Cognition is embodied, ie neural devices are not alone determine the emergence of intelligent behavior, but also sensory and motor devices that connect directly to the body with the environment
- of embodied cognition is not only dependent on the body's internal physiological devices, but is under environmental characteristics, thus forming a kind of cognitive-ecological niche which the agency is a party;
- human bodies for cognition is situated, ie, cultural factors exert a significant determination on it;
- As situated, cognition also is distributed, ie, coordination between agents is necessary for effective action that leads to solving the problems of survival;
- Coordination among agents requires tools and technologies that extend purely biological cognitive abilities of these, to which Clark refers to the term wideware . The language would wideware par excellence, which would allow the higher cognitive activities and products such as science and art.
would not be surprising many readers, especially from the social sciences and humanities, seriously consider the acceptance of these seven desiderata to form a complete cognitive science. However, as Jerry Fodor repeatedly warns us, we must resist the compulsion to buy attractive theories without considering the consequences of the investment. It should therefore warn the reader in some detail what he acquired when he felt the inclination to invest in mindware clarkiano. Before that, it should make a brief recap of what until now exposed.
Clark's proposal, more than a theory, as I said in the previous section, a unified theory articulated scheme based on what he sees as salient features of cognition. The salient facts reveal the inadequacies of the type of cognitive science made by advocates of classical cognitive architecture and the need to reestablish cognitive science on new bases. Thus, the scheme proposed theory that Clark also has a programmatic sense. Your program attempts to integrate into a unified framework a number of partial studies that share some very general notions such as corporealization, situatedness, embedding ( embeddedness) and distribution. On the other hand, could serve as a general pattern to infer more specific hypotheses in the field of this possible cognitive science. Can not be said therefore that the mindware or extended cognition is a research framework with clear specifications as to the domain that covers and methodological assumptions that cling to the researchers. Clark uses the metaphor of cognition as an unregulated bag of tricks is a reflection of alternative theories when viewed as a whole. It should be noted, however, that the great merit of Clark has been to try to put the basis on which could be unified diversidad de enfoques alternativos de la cognición, en lo que se refiere a las especificaciones de dominio —qué es o qué podría ser la cognición— y a las prácticas metodológicas.
Los que deseen comprar el mindware de Clark tendrían que ocuparse de completar y de intentar llevar a cabo los puntos de su programa. Una labor pionera, sin duda, cuyas recompensas solamente podrían disfrutarse, si es que en el largo plazo todo marcha bien. Aquellos acostumbrados a no dilatar las recompensas se les recomienda conformarse con alguno de los marcos de investigación vigentes, simbólico y conexionista. Si se conforman con el esquema connectionist could still maintain some hope for the mindware clarkiano, as in many passages Clark says its proposal is in some sense so far not clear enough to me, an extension that would enhance connectionist architecture. The latter potential buyers, I recommend to curb any impulse to buy until the terms of the covenant established with connectionism Clark are not fully clarified.
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