MODEL (Conceptual system)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(2) |
| ID | ◀ 2161 ▶ |
| Object type | Methodology or model |
- “A system perceived as a unit by an observer (i.e. the modeller)”(E. VACCARI & H. D'AMATO, 2000, p. 170)
- “In general a modeller formulates a CSM for some specific purpose which determines
the aspect (i.e. selection of specific significant attributes among the infinity of potentially distinguishable ones) or the process (i.e. time function relations between attributes) to conceptualise“ (Ibid)
However, there are doubts about the practical use of the CSM when translated to a computational method .
The authors state that “basic metaphysical assumptions underlying the computational approach are the existence of a language of thoughts (FODOR, 1975) and the independence (based on the notion of computational equivalence) of a cognitive process performance from the medium carrying on the process itself. The approach is based on the assumed similarity between the mind and a universal Turing machine (NEWELL, SHAW and SIMON, 1958) from which the notion of a physical symbol system as an information processing device has been derived.
A physical symbol system necessary and sufficient to produce intelligent behavior (NEWELL & SIMON, 1976) is a set of physical patterns/discrete symbol strings and a set of explicit rules . The rules can also be coded as symbolic structures and they describe how to manipulate the symbols“(Ibid)
This seems in fact to be a quite simplistic linear and somehow nearly mechanistic view, very different from the nature of neuronal net activity in the brain (i.e. multisimultaneous processing, with reinforcements , dampenings, parallel distributed processing)
In fact, the classical computational approach evacuates the real complexity of modelled systems. This is why conventional artificial intelligence does not seem so “intelligent”, after all.