Cognitive science treats humans as thinking like computers - rationally, if
boundedly rationally.
Which part of cognitive science treats humans as thinking irrationally, as I
have described ? (There may be some misunderstandings here which hve to be
ironed out, but I don't think my claim at all outrageous or less than
obvious).
All the social sciences treat humans as thinking rationally. It is notorious
that this doesn't fit the reality - especially for example in economics. But
the basic attitude is: well, it's the best model we've got.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Loosemore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2007 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [agi] The Advantages of a Conscious Mind
Mike Tintner wrote:
Now to the rational philosopher and scientist and to the classical AI
person, this is all terrible (as well as flatly contradicting one of the
most fundamental assumptions of cognitive science, i.e. that humans think
rationally). We are indeed "only human not [rational, deterministic]
machines."
Mike, this is getting a bit much.
Your statement that "one of the most fundamental assumptions of cognitive
science [is] that humans think rationally" is complete and utter bunk.
There is no possible interpretation of this claim that could make it even
slightly true.
Richard Loosemore.
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