Australian philosopher who argued that cognitive systems are best understood as dynamical systems rather than computational or connectionist systems.
What Might Cognition Be, If Not Computation? (1995): the Watt governor — a simple dynamical system that regulates engine speed — is a better model of cognitive processes than a computational device. Dynamical systems hypothesis: cognition is real-time state change in continuous systems, not discrete symbol manipulation.
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