4th
May
2001
Cognition, Emotion and Other Inescapable Dimensions of Human Experience
“There is an Aristotelic tradition in cognitive psychology, information design and artificial intelligence, to understand human information processing as a mechanism, that is, as a complicated system, ultimately explainable on the basis of the understanding of every one of its multiple components and their interactions. Instead of looking at human information processing as a complicated system, I propose to look at it as a complex system, distinguishing for this paper the complicated from the complex; the first being composed by a high number of discrete parts with many interconnections: as in a computer circuit, the second being an integrated system where everything affects everything: as in the relation between two people.”