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Article #419Re: Cog. Psych vs Cog. Sci
From: David M Kreindler
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:27
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:27
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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. 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. 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. Cheers, DK -- kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.edu ------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes you're the windshield / Sometimes you're the bug...." - Dire Straits
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Newsgroups: sci.cognitive Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!babbage.ece.uc.edu!ucunix.san.uc.edu!kreinddm From: kreinddm@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David M Kreindler) Subject: Re: Cog. Psych vs Cog. Sci Message-ID: <C17pqC.7q9@ucunix.san.uc.edu> Sender: David Kreindler Organization: University of Cincinnati References: <1jig25INN97h@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <ROLFL.93Jan20082744@ulrik.uio.no> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:27:48 GMT Lines: 25