TY - JOUR
T1 - Computation vs. Information Processing: Why Their Difference Matters to Cognitive Science
AU - Piccinini, Gualtiero
AU - Scarantino, Andrea
N1 - Since the cognitive revolution, it has become commonplace that cognition involves both computation and information processing. Is this one claim or two? Is computation the same as information processing? The two terms are often used interchangeably, but this usage masks important differences.
Gualtiero Piccinini, Andrea Scarantino, Computation vs. information processing: why their difference matters to cognitive science, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 237-246, ISSN 0039-3681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.012.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368110000440)
Keywords: Computation; Information processing; Computationalism; Computational theory of mind; Cognitivism
PY - 2010/9
Y1 - 2010/9
N2 - Since the cognitive revolution, it has become commonplace that cognition involves both computation and information processing. Is this one claim or two? Is computation the same as information processing? The two terms are often used interchangeably, but this usage masks important differences. In this paper, we distinguish information processing from computation and examine some of their mutual relations, shedding light on the role each can play in a theory of cognition. We recommend that theorists of cognition be explicit and careful in choosing notions of computation and information and connecting them together.
AB - Since the cognitive revolution, it has become commonplace that cognition involves both computation and information processing. Is this one claim or two? Is computation the same as information processing? The two terms are often used interchangeably, but this usage masks important differences. In this paper, we distinguish information processing from computation and examine some of their mutual relations, shedding light on the role each can play in a theory of cognition. We recommend that theorists of cognition be explicit and careful in choosing notions of computation and information and connecting them together.
KW - Cognitivism
KW - Computation
KW - Computationalism
KW - Computational Theory of Mind
KW - Information Processing
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368110000440
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368110000440
U2 - 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.shpsa.2010.07.012
M3 - Article
VL - 41
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
ER -