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A GENERATIVE APPROACH TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF COGNITIVE SKILLS

Brian D. Josephson
Cavendish Laboratory
Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK

and

Nils A. Baas
Department of Mathematical Sciences, NTNU
University of Trondheim
N-7034 Trondheim
NORWAY

August 16, 1996

Abstract:

We describe a new approach to understanding the functioning of the nervous system, unifying previous ideas of Josephson and Hauser [1], Baas [2], and Brooks [3]. Its basis consists in analysing the total developmental process into basic components of development, whose corresponding mechanisms (skill constructors) are organised together into a coherent total system.



Josephson and Baas 16/8/96 (paper presented at ECHO conference, Amiens, August 1996)