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- From: kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David M Kreindler)
- Subject: Re: Cog. Psych vs Cog. Sci
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- References: <1jig25INN97h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <ROLFL.93Jan20082744@ulrik.uio.no>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:27:48 GMT
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- In article <ROLFL.93Jan20082744@ulrik.uio.no> rolfl@ulrik.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
- >
- >According to Schank and Abelson's "Scripts, Plans, Goals and
- >Understanding," Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary subject,
- >contributed to by, among others, Psychology, AI, Logic and Linguistics.
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- I prefer Martin Gardner's characterization of it, from "The Mind's
- New Science": CogSci sits at the intersection point of Neuroscience,
- Philosophy, Anthropology, CompSci, Philosophy, and Linguistics.
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- As I've come to understand it, Cognitive Science deals with understanding
- how information is processed by the brain, whereas Artificial Intelligence
- is more interested in the production of behaviour by machines that is
- a facsimilie of "real" intelligent behaviour, with less emphasis on
- worrying about whether the mechanisms generating such behaviour do, in
- fact, resemble those used by actual minds.
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- Cheers,
- DK
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