Vernazzani, Alfredo and Coelho Mollo, Dimitri
(2023)
The Formats of Cognitive Representation: A Computational Account.
[Preprint]
Abstract
Cognitive representations are typically analysed in terms of content, vehicle and format.
While current work on formats appeals to intuitions about external representations, such as
words and maps, in this paper we develop a computational view of formats that does not rely
on intuitions. In our view, formats are individuated by the computational profiles of vehicles,
i.e., the set of constraints that fix the computational transformations vehicles can undergo.
The resulting picture is strongly pluralistic, it makes space for a variety of different formats,
and is intimately tied to the computational approach to cognition in cognitive science and
artificial intelligence.
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