Cognitive Science: The Newest Science of the Artificial

Cognitive science is, of course, not really a new discipline, but a recognition of o fundamental set of common cmcerns shared by the disciplines of psychology, computer science, linguistics, economics, epistemology, and the social sciences generally. All of these disciplines ore concerned with information processing systems, and all of them are concerned with systems that ore adaptive-that are what they are from being ground between the nether millstone of their physiology or hardware, as the case may be, and the upper millstone of a,camplex enviranment in which they exist. Systems that are adaptive may equally well be described as “artificial,” far as environments change, they can be expected to change too, as though they were deliberately designed to fit those environments (as indeed they sometimes are).