SOAR: an architecture for general intelligence
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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
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The non-classical thesis of emotion (NCE) states that the conceptual resources of classical cognitive science cannot adequately account for certain important features of emotion. It also states that these features can be adequately accounted for by employing the conceptual resources of non-classical forms of cognitive science. There is a general problem with all forms of NCE, since they all assume that classical cognitive science is too restrictive, when if anything the reverse is true. In fact, the relationship between classical and non-classical approaches to the study of emotion is much more fuzzy than NCE suggests. Though the two approaches use different terms of art, this does not grant one group privileged access to cognitive resources inaccessible to the other, but merely directs their attention to different features of the phenomena being studied. Thus the real contribution of non-classical models of emotion is to draw our attention to certain key aspects of emotion requiring explanation that had perhaps been somewhat neglected by classical models.