The society of mind
Connectionism and cognitive architecture: a critical analysis
Connections and symbols
The computational brain
Bayesian methods for adaptive models
Bayesian methods for adaptive models
The calculi of emergence: computation, dynamics and induction
Proceedings of the NATO advanced research workshop and EGS topical workshop on Chaotic advection, tracer dynamics and turbulent dispersion
Connectionism—the miracle mind model
selected papers from the Swedish conference on Connectionism in a broad perspective
Universal computation and other capabilities of hybrid and continuous dynamical systems
Theoretical Computer Science - Special issue on hybrid systems
Representation and recognition in vision
Representation and recognition in vision
A new kind of science
Mind and Mechanism
Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition
Mind as Motion: Explorations in the Dynamics of Cognition
Information Theory, Inference & Learning Algorithms
Information Theory, Inference & Learning Algorithms
Cognition and the Power of Continuous Dynamical Systems
Minds and Machines
Embodiments of Mind
The Development of Embodied Cognition: Six Lessons from Babies
Artificial Life
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
The Emotion Machine: Commonsense Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of the Human Mind
Minds and Machines
Semiotic Systems, Computers, and the Mind: How Cognition Could Be Computing
International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems
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Are minds really dynamical or are they really symbolic? Because minds are bundles of computations, and because computation is always a matter of interpretation of one system by another, minds are necessarily symbolic. Because minds, along with everything else in the universe, are physical, and insofar as the laws of physics are dynamical, minds are necessarily dynamical systems. Thus, the short answer to the opening question is 'yes'. It makes sense to ask further whether some of the computations that constitute a human mind are constrained by functional, algorithmic, or implementational factors to be essentially of the discrete symbolic variety (even if they supervene on an apparently continuous dynamical substrate). I suggest that here too the answer is 'yes' and discuss the need for such discrete, symbolic cognitive computations in communication-related tasks.