Is Cognitive Science Usefully Cast as Complexity Science?
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Is Cognitive Science Usefully Cast as Complexity Science?
Readers of TopiCS are invited to join a debate about the utility of ideas and methods of complexity science. The topics of debate include empirical instances of qualitative change in cognitive activity and whether this empirical work demonstrates sufficiently the empirical flags of complexity. In addition, new phenomena discovered by complexity scientists, and motivated by complexity theory, ca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Topics in Cognitive Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1756-8757
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01165.x