ABSTRACT
A charge for a theory of computational and representational capacities would be that of accommodating the aforementioned defining properties. Arguably, the single most important progenitor of the computational–representational perspective is information theory. As depicted in the top panel, the brain/mind—an assumed data processor, data filer, and data manipulator—is linked to a computational device, a system that possesses a number of data-processing, filing, and manipulating capacities. Development of the computational–representational approach follows B. Von Eckardt’s explication of so-called substantive assumptions that constrain answers to the basic questions defining Cognitive Science. As suggested in the bottom panel, the brain/mind as an assumed medium for representing data is linked to a representational device, a system with varied capacities for representation. First language from the perspective of probabilistic epigenesis is emergent from non-obvious interaction-dominant dynamics. A prominent manifest form of the computational–representational perspective is artificial intelligence.
