What Is a Cognitive System?
Cognitive Semantics 5 (forthcoming)
Abstract
A theory of cognitive systems individuation is presented and defended. The approach
has some affinity with Leonard Talmy's Overlapping Systems Model of Cognitive
Organization, and the paper's first section explores aspects of Talmy's view that are
shared by the view developed herein. According to the view on offer -- the conditional
probability of co-contribution account (CPC) -- a cognitive system is a collection of
mechanisms that contribute, in overlapping subsets, to a wide variety of forms of
intelligent behavior. Central to this approach is the idea of an integrated system. A
formal characterization of integration is laid out in the form of a conditional-probabilitybased
measure of the clustering of causal contributors to the production of intelligent
behavior. I relate the view to the debate over extended and embodied cognition and
respond to objections that have been raised in print by Andy Clark, Colin Klein, and
Felipe de Brigard.
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