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Radical empiricism is not constructive

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1997

Jerome A. Feldman
Jerome A. Feldman
Affiliation:
EECS, University of California, Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA 94704 [email protected]
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Abstract

The radical empiricist theory of the Quartz & Sejnowski target article would result in a brain that could not act. The attempt to bolster this position with computational arguments is misleading and often just wrong. Fortunately, other efforts are making progress in linking neural and cognitive development.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 1997 , pp. 563 - 564
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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