For us lay people, what does it mean for something to be non-representationalist and non-computationalist?
Orthodox cognitive science takes cognition to consist of or be best explained in terms of computational processes, generally operating on internal representations, whereas non-representationalism and non-computationalism reject this. I.e., the orthodox account of vision sees it as a process of transforming one representation into another (it starts with the retinal image, performs some operation on it, say, finding edges, to give a new representation, then performs some processing on that, etc, until you have a three-dimensional representation or a symboli...
This is the fourth bimonthly What Are You Working On? thread. Thanks to atucker for reminding me to make this post. Click here to see previous threads. So here's the question:
What are you working on?
Here are some guidelines: