On the impossibility of acquiring more powerful structures: A neglected alternative.
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| Publication date | 1986 |
| Journal | Human Development |
| Volume | Issue number | 29 |
| Pages (from-to) | 245-251 |
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| Abstract | Suggests that J. A. Fodor's (1975, 1980, 1981) extreme functionalism is unwarranted insofar as it leads to a categorical exclusion of the structural processes involved in cognitive development. An explicit consideration of these processes indicates the possibility of more powerful structures, emerging through self-organization in a way that is distinct from the combinatorial mechanisms invoked by Fodor. This point is illustrated by means of a simple example involving an inductive neural network with emergent structural properties. |
| Document type | Article |
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https://doi.org/10.1159/000273061
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