PSYCO354 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Visual System, Reverse Engineering, Cybernetics
8 Dec 2016
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Being as theses attempting to explain truth. Deficiencies in these thesis lead to alternatives, antitheses. Synthesis is the last stage where truth is approached by combining elements of theses and antitheses. Cog sci is an example of dialectical progression: classical as theses, connectionist and embodied as antitheses. Possibility of hybrid accounts of cognition are used to claim synthesis is possible but not yet achieved. Synthesis has been impeded because modern cognitivism, which exemplified classical approach, arose as a violent reaction against behaviorist psych. Some elements of the antitheses exploit associations between ideas and environmental control, which were foundations of behaviorist school. Therefore this works against synthesis, bc exploring such ideas has ideological impact of abandoning the cognitive revolution. Driven by the tension to a state of conflict resolution (3 stages, theses antitheses synthesis. Different approaches to study of cognition illustrate a dialectic.
