The ghost in the square
Descartes’ legacy
Dualism
Dualism continues to dictate the agenda
Many attempts to redress dualism are strategically mistaken
Alternative agenda: reject the essence of dualism and its problems
Psychology as an information science
Information psychology focus
Symbol processing is necessary and sufficient for intelligence (Newell & Simon, 1976)
Language-like symbol usage dominates cognitive science
Discrete symbols
Intelligence without language
Flies vs Garry Kasparov
Language is weak model for elementary units of cognition
The biomimetic perspective on cognitive science
Foundational operations
Constraint satisfaction as computational paradigm
Constraint satisfaction is dynamic
Constraint satisfaction through relaxation
Animal cognition lends perspective
Dolphin’s sensory systems give perspective
Sensory and perceptual processes challenge cognitive science
Dolphin Echolocation Signal
Sensory Information in 1-Dimensional Time Series
Portion of an echo from object in mud
Dolphin delayed matching to sample
Constraint satisfaction in echolocation
Dolphin matching performance
How dolphins represent objects
Dolphins can combine information across modalities
Trained with three stimuli
Partial knowledge
Constraint satisfaction and partial knowledge
Bistable attractor
Implications and conclusions
The end
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