Digital Social Mind - Imprint Academic

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This book argues that relational cognition, a form of social cognition, exhibits digital infinity as does language. Copies of elementary models are combined and recursively nested to form a potentially infinite number of complex models. Just as one posits proof-theoretic grammars in order to account for the digital infinity of language, one also should posit proof-theoretic grammars to account for the digital infinity of relational cognition. Objections to a proof-theoretic approach, often equally applicable both to language and to relational cognition, are considered and criticized. Such objections either posit overly complex alternatives or overlook the role of idealization in science.
Jun 17, 2011

Source: Guardian

Credit: Steven Poole

"Thinking about the societies in which our ancestors lived, rather than travelling back in time to murder them, is a form of 'social cognition'. My digital reading mind whirred and clunked for a while, and then beeped an approving output."
Paperback
- Publication Date: 01 April 2011
- ISBN-13: 9781845401979
- Extent: Main content page count : 128
- Code: 1845401972
- Dimensions: 13.5 x 21 x 1 cm
- Weight: 200 grams
- List Price: £8.95
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