Phenomenology's Critique on Cognitive Science

XU Xian-jun · Journal of Hangzhou Dianzi University · 2007

it is thought by Computationalism that the nature of cognition is based on the manipulation of abstract representations by explicit formal rules,and the role played by the situation and the body can be ignored.Therefore,the computer can have the intelligence exactly as that of the human being.However,the supposition has encountered a lot of problems since it was put forward.From the perspective of the phenomenology,the root of the supposition is wrong.Maybe cognitive science should take a phenomenological way instead of the former one.

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