ENCODING: Its limits
Charles François (2004). ENCODING: Its limits, International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 1074.
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1074 ▶ |
| Object type | Epistemology, ontology or semantics, Methodology or model |
M.H. BICKHAR and L. TERVEEN observe the existence of an implicit assumption according to which all representations have the nature of encodings. They call this assumption “encodigism” and state that any programmatic research predicted on it is doomed to distortion and ultimate failure (1996).
The basic reason of this limitation is that encodings are strictly constrained and cannot produce more that their intrinsic content .
The authors propose “Interactivism” and connectionism as an alternative model of representation and explain the foundations of an interactivist architecture in Artificial Intelligence.