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Acerca del carácter representacional de la mente. La mente representacional
Author(s) -
José María Zumalabe Makirriain
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
psychology society and education
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2171-2085
pISSN - 1989-709X
DOI - 10.25115/psye.v6i2.513
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , psychology , cognition , cognitive science , neuroscience
espanolDesde las ciencias cognitivas se entiende el pensamiento en terminos de estructuras de representaciones mentales sobre las que operan procesos computacionales. En el modelo representacional-computacional de la mente se recurre a una compleja analogia triadica que vincula mente, cerebro y ordenadores. La mayoria de estos modelos son simbolicos, aunque tambien existen modelos representacionales no simbolicos (conexionismo) y modelos cognitivos no representacionales de la mente. El analisis de los diferentes enfoques cognitivos sobre las representaciones y los procesos mentales en el marco de la ciencia cognitiva y de sus ventajas y limitaciones revela que se trata de enfoques que no tienen por que ser excluyentes entre si y que en muchos de los casos se complementan, aunque tambien se constata la ausencia de una teoria unificada al respecto. Tras considerar los puntos debiles tanto del modelo simbolico computacional clasico como del conexionismo, reconociendo los avances significativos propiciados por ambos en el estudio de la mente, se concluye que no existe todavia ningun modelo computacional con capacidad representacional para abarcar todo el pensamiento humano. EnglishAccording to cognitive science, thinking is understood as structures of mental representations on which computational processes operate. In the representational-computational model of the mind, we resort to a complex triadic analogy that links mind, brain and computers. Most of these models are symbolic, although there are also non-symbolic representational models (connectionism) and non-representational cognitive models of the mind. The analysis of the various cognitive approaches on the representations and the mind processes within the framework of the cognitive sciences and of their advantages and limitations reveals that these approaches do not have to mutually exclusive and that, in many of the cases, they complement each other. However, the lack of a unified theory regarding this matter has also been stated. After considering the weak points of both the classic computational symbolic model and the connectionism, acknowledging the significant progresses made by both in the study of the mind, we conclude that there is still no computational model with representational capacity to cover the whole human thinking.

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