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A new intellectual movement in the field of cognitive science1 has been developed, above all, in the last two decades of the current century, starting from debates that took place, mainly, in the philosophy of science at the end of the twentieth century. This movement has been described more broadly by many authors as a “new mechanistic philosophy” [4, 5, 6, 7]. Strongly influenced by recent advances in computer science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, the theoretical framework developed by some of the movement’s most prominent authors offers a new physicalist (or materialist) and mechanistic view of human cognition2 [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21].
The theory formulated from the application of the neo-mechanistic philosophy to cognitive science and, specifically, to human cognition, can be called the
One of the most central elements present in the framework of MTHC is a “model of human cognitive computation” [9, 10, 11, 13, 15], which is also part of the attempt made by several influential authors to provide some type of unification or integration for the field of cognitive science [9, 10, 23, 24, 25]. However, some complex cognitive capacities and some particular aspects of human cognition still present a challenge for explanations constructed by using this theoretical structure [22].
My central goal in this chapter, therefore, is to present an argument to show that human cognition cannot yet be completely understood and explained in terms of mechanistic computation and that this view indeed presents many substantial limitations.
To develop my argument, I present, firstly, some of the central elements of this neo-mechanistic framework and its application to cognitive science. Secondly, I present the mechanistic model of human cognitive computation, as it is currently framed, and, based on the specialized literature, I show in what dimensions it helps our understanding of some aspects of human cognitive capacities, such as visual perception and memory consolidation. Thirdly, I show that to understand and explain some human cognitive capacities, such as self-consciousness and conscious informal reasoning and decision making, the neo-mechanistic framework shows substantial limitations. I conclude the chapter by suggesting that the notion of human artificial cognitive computation can be useful for several projects, but to fully understand natural human cognition we will most certainly have to consider theories that go beyond the current neo-mechanistic model of human cognitive computation.
The contemporary movement of neo-mechanistic philosophy has been historically associated with ideas already present in the period of Ancient Philosophy. Philosophers, such as Democritus, Leucippus, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Lucretius [9, 14, 26], for example, have been mentioned in the specialized literature as precursors. Although there is no unity of thought regarding this philosophical tradition, these thinkers would arguably have launched, in Western philosophical thought, the first notions linked to mechanistic reflections. In other words, these philosophers would have proposed the general idea that many phenomena in nature must be explained through their basic components, their forms of movement, their properties, and their interactions since these phenomena are also composed of these basic elements.
In Modern Philosophy, the history of what might be called “mechanistic philosophy” is quite complex, given the many debates over definitions of the term and the variety of positions that can be considered within a more general view of what the term means in this period. In any case, many authors consider that the movement of mechanistic philosophy in the seventeenth century is a reaction to Aristotelian natural philosophy and various natural philosophies of the Renaissance period [27]. The French philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650), for example, is considered one of the main figures who laid the foundations of modern mechanistic philosophy, especially with regard to explanations of biological natural phenomena [9, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31]. Des Chene [30] argues that Descartes united a mechanistic ontology, on the one hand, with a method of mechanistic explanation, on the other, applying these ideas to numerous biological phenomena, including the behavior of non-human animals and the human body.
Shortly thereafter, this reasoning would also be applied quite influentially to human beings and their mental capacities. One of the most prominent advocates of this view was the French philosopher and physician Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751), who published
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the debate about the best explanation for the complex phenomenon of “life” was still quite strong [32]. The controversy was over whether or not this phenomenon could be explained in mechanistic terms. In this context, a very influential work was that of the German-born American physiologist and biologist Jacques Loeb (1859–1924), published in 1912,
In the second half of the twentieth century, philosophers of science sought to analyze, in a more precise way, this mechanistic explanatory strategy. One of the most influential analyzes is present in the work of the American philosopher Ernest Nagel (1901–1985),
It was also during this period that some philosophers of science working in the field of biology began the task of elaborating, in an even more robust and systematic way, notions related to mechanistic explanations in science – mainly in biology. Along these lines, some pioneering works were the following: Herbert Simon,
Within this line of philosophical thinking, the work of William Bechtel and Robert Richardson,
It is also important to point out that in the development of the neo-mechanist movement, at the end of the twentieth century, we can distinguish, more generally, two main trends [5]. One of them focuses more on metaphysical and ontological directions. Authors who work in this line seek, above all, to answer what mechanisms are as real things in the world. The other strand followed in the direction of a greater elaboration of the philosophy of science with epistemological and methodological discussions about scientific explanations, mainly in the area of biology. They seek to explain how something works and not make claims about the ultimate reality of things. These two strands of the new mechanism have been elaborated in an enormous specialized literature that covers several scientific and philosophical areas, dominating a great part of the central debates. Despite being two dimensions that can be separated in the debate, ontological and epistemological discussions are deeply related in many works, both directly and indirectly.
The neo-mechanistic philosophy began to be applied with greater emphasis to cognitive science since the decade of 1990 – with this application becoming stronger in the first decade of the twenty-first century – and it has been better elaborated since then until the present days in central works of very influential authors [9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43]. According to this view, human cognition, specifically, as well as biological cognition, in general, can be understood and explained through complex models of multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms. At these levels, there are causal processes related to cognitive information processing, cognitive representation, cognitive computing, as well as processes related to chemical and physical reactions that can be used to explain a given cognitive phenomenon. These are, in fact, autonomous processes of causation, which take place at all these different levels and are relevant to the explanation of the phenomenon of interest [44]. According to this theory of human cognition, namely, MTHC, all these causal levels and processes, although autonomous, can be related in a pluralistic mechanistic explanation, where the relevant scientific theories are integrated. As a result, MTHC includes not only a theory of human cognition but also a theory of the human neurocognitive relationship; that is, the theoretical framework suggests a possible solution to the problem of how we are to understand and explain the connection between human neural and cognitive phenomena, thus attempting to relate neuroscience and cognitive science.
The main objective of a mechanistic scientific explanation in scientific areas, such as biology, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive science, is to identify the parts of a mechanism, its operations, its organization, and thus show how these elements constitute the system’s relationship with the phenomenon that must be explained [9, 10, 45]. Particularly, in cognitive science, the central idea present in the theory is that human neurocognitive processes are a type of information processing performed by neural systems (mechanisms). These processes and the components that carry them out can be decomposed into subparts, and these subparts are decomposed again, as far as necessary for the understanding of the investigated phenomenon. After that, these components and activities have to be located in the brain as spatiotemporal parts of a complex multilevel neurobiological mechanism. As a result, there may be multiple levels of mechanistic composition in a human neurocognitive mechanism.
Another important feature of MTHC is that it was developed within a broad physicalist context that is present in a vast amount of work in contemporary cognitive science, philosophy of cognitive science, and philosophy of mind. In this physicalist context, the theory tries to combine central ideas present in traditional cognitive science with the main ideas present in certain fields of neuroscience that investigate human cognition. In this sense, some authors argue that this mechanistic physicalist framework can provide a consistent way to build a unified science of cognition and integrate cognitive science and neuroscience [23, 24, 25, 40].
Indeed, integrating and unifying, from a physicalist background, traditional cognitive science and traditional neuroscience to understand and investigate human cognition is an old dream held by many authors. Patricia Churchland, in 1986, calls for the unification of cognitive research and neural research in her book
It is possible to argue that MTHC was articulated with the objective of providing this integration and unification in a more precise theoretical way and within a clear physicalist background. The influential version of MTHC by William Bechtel is a clear example. He considers the human phenomenon “mind-brain” as “a set of mechanisms for controlling behavior” [9], and he explains that cognitive phenomena (e.g., perception, attention, memory, problem solving, and language) can be characterized as “information-processing mechanisms” [9]. Bechtel [9] states that scientific disciplines that aim to explain cognitive activities recognize that “in some way, these activities depend upon our brain.” Or, to put it in another way: “Psychological phenomena are realized in brains comprised of neurons” [45]. This means that cognitive phenomena are physical and need to be explained in some physical (neural) way.
Craver and Tabery [47] describe the physicalist commitment quite clearly—“many mechanists opt for some form of explanatory anti-reductionism, emphasizing the importance of multilevel and upward-looking explanations, without rejecting the central ideas that motivate a broad physicalist world-picture.” Therefore, in this approach, there is no space for any form of dualism, pluralism, or non-physicalism of any kind in relation to the ontology of human cognition. There is, indeed, a clear commitment to a form of ontological monism, namely, physicalism, that underlies the neo-mechanistic theory of human cognition.
Neo-mechanistic ideas about human cognitive phenomena are becoming increasingly dominant in fields related to theoretical cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience [48]. Consequently, the neo-mechanistic framework is often presented as one of the main theories, or the main theory, to explain human cognition in the twenty-first century.
Formulations of the idea that human cognition can be considered in computational terms can already arguably be found in the works of Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716). However, it is in the first half of the twentieth century that new developments in this tradition made the thesis gain great strength [49]. Alan Turing (1912–1954), with his work on computation, made a solid mathematical contribution to advances in the attempt to build machines capable of thinking like humans. And with the development of the computer and the emergence of studies in computer science and artificial intelligence, there was an even greater push for the acceptance of these ideas in the period. Indeed, these were crucial factors in the development of cognitive psychology in the 1950s and cognitive science (in the specific sense) in the 1970s. In discussing the foundations of cognitive science, Gardner [3] states that “there is the faith that central to any understanding of the human mind is the electronic computer.” Furthermore, according to him: “Involvement with computers, and belief in their relevance as a model of human thought, is pervasive in cognitive science” [3].
The first formulations of the philosophical foundations and the most central bases of the “computational theory of cognition” were presented, above all, in central works by Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) and Jerry Fodor (1935–2017). It is mainly based on works like these that the “classical model of cognitive computation” was formulated [49]. According to this proposal, the human mind is a computational system similar in important respects to a “Turing machine,” which works through “Turing-style computations.” In this view, cognitive processes, such as problem solving, decision making, and formal reasoning, are performed through computations similar to those of a Turing machine.
Another line of work, however, developed an alternative notion of cognitive computation. Inspired by research in the field of neurophysiology, some authors in the 1980s proposed that cognitive computation was something very different from Turing-style computation [50]. The correct format of cognitive computation for them was that of neural networks, in which, very briefly, data nodes are connected in a particular way so that when the network is activated through an input, it can provide an output. This framework became known as connectionism, and it has been developed in numerous works since then. Many cognitive models of different phenomena were built based on this view, such as object recognition, speech perception, and sentence comprehension.
The notion of “cognitive mechanistic computation” is part of this tradition, and it is especially related to the model of neural networks. Craver [10], for example, writes about the “computational properties of brain regions” and “computational properties of neural systems,” without giving much detail about what exactly this means. In any case, it is clear that the supposed computation is much more related to concrete properties of neural systems than to abstract functional properties of psychological capacities considered in terms of Turing computation or something similar. Milkowski [11], in turn, presents a proposal that holds that neurocognitive processing occurs over states that contain information, but he does not elaborate much on the content and the semantic dimension of cognitive information or of putative cognitive computations.
Bechtel [9, 19] considers mental mechanisms as information-processing mechanisms that operate through neural representations and neural computations about vehicles and content. In his view, the “control theory of dynamical systems” shows how content is placed in this context. And Thagard [14, 15] thinks that mental mechanisms operate through computations that take place on representations at the cognitive level and computations that take place at the neural and molecular levels. In Thagard’s work, there is also recourse to the “theory of dynamical systems” (as in Bechtel’s); however, just in his version of the mechanistic theory, there is a definite number of mechanistic levels and extensive discussion about the “semantic pointers theory” of Chris Eliasmith.
Finally, there is the work of Piccinini [12, 13, 51], which is one of the most theoretically sophisticated and detailed among neo-mechanists regarding such issues. The author defends a mechanistic neurocomputational theory of human cognition. In his view, the human nervous system is a functional mechanism that produces computations through the activation of neurons, while the processing occurs in vehicles according to rules. Cognitive capacities are explained then by multilevel neurocognitive mechanisms that perform neural computations over neural representations. Besides, he thinks that neural computation (i.e., computations defined on the functionally relevant elements of neural activity) is not purely digital, as classically understood, nor purely analog, as alternatively understood; in his view, neural computation is
One does not need to enter so deep into these individual theories to see that they differ significantly. Craver mentions computations but does not offer an elaborated account. Thagard is the only one mentioning semantic pointers as central to the account. Milkowski and Piccinini attempt to avoid the problems with content, by means of focusing on formal properties. And Bechtel uses control theory to deal with the issue of content. As a result, it is not possible to derive from those accounts a single theory, as each author develops his/her own point of view with its significant particularities. There is, therefore, no theoretical substantial unity among these proponents.
However, one can try to find common aspects to evaluate at least the most basic and important tenets. To do that, an analysis of two cases where this mechanistic view on human cognitive computation can be applied will be helpful.
One of the best examples found in the specialized literature of a concrete application of this view to particular cognitive phenomena is related to memory, which, indeed, has been traditionally an object of study in the field of psychology [9, 10]. Functional analyses of the human memory capacity reveal the existence of many sub-capacities, such as short-term memory, long-term memory, phonological memory, visuospatial memory, semantic memory, episodic memory, and memory consolidation. In mechanistic terms, one of the best-understood phenomena in this memory system is memory consolidation. Roughly put, this is the phenomenon of transforming short-term memories (which are liable and easy to disrupt) into long-term memories, which are robust and enduring, when consolidation takes place and permits the organism to remember important events for a longer period of time and modify its behavior accordingly [52]. To explain this phenomenon, all the relevant regions in the brain responsible for the functions that compose the neuro-cognitive mechanism of memory consolidation, including all relevant mechanistic levels of decomposition, must be identified, that is, all the particular component parts and component operations of the whole mechanism must be determined, as shown on Figure 1. Finally, the causal processes and causal interactions within the mechanism functions need also to be understood, that is, the general organization of the mechanism.
An example of a simple model of a neuro-cognitive biological mechanism (M1). In this model, M1 is composed, at the level L1, by its component parts C1, C2, and C3, which perform the functions (or activities) f1, f2, and f3. The component parts can be decomposed into smaller components, as it happens with C3, which is composed, at level L2, of the sub-components SC1, SC2, SC3, and SC4. The component SC3 can be further decomposed, at level L3, into its subcomponents ssc1, ssc2, and ssc3.
The explanation starts at the highest level of the whole mechanism. At this level, it is necessary to correctly identify all the large neural network that is responsible for memory consolidation. Secondly, it must be established whether this large neural system is indeed all that is relevant for the explanation of the phenomenon. The mechanistic explanation at this level also needs to clarify how the neural network process information about new memory episodes through
Once this has been clarified, the explanation turns to the second level of description in which the large neural system is decomposed into particular sub-neural systems localized in more specific regions. Here the goal is to understand the information processing and computational operations (e.g., spiking patterns in populations of neurons) of these smaller neural networks and how they contribute to the performance of the whole mechanism composed of such neural nets.
Moreover, a further stage of decomposition must be reached that concerns the processes underlying memory at an intercellular level. The explanation at this particular level aims at describing the components of a particular neural network and at understanding how a small number of neurons operate (e.g., how they depolarize and fire in the process of propagation of action potentials, or how they are responsible for synaptic processes, neurotransmitters being released, and so on). Here it is possible to measure spiking rates of neurons, or spiking frequency and record neural activity in general.
Finally, the explanation can go even to another lower mechanistic level—the intracellular and molecular level. At this level, the description is in terms of the activity of relevant proteins, molecules, and ions. As one can see, this kind of explanation “exhibits a progression from the behavioral-level characterization of memory consolidation to the identification of important components in the process at progressively lower levels.” [52]. All levels are equally important to achieve the complete multilevel mechanistic explanation of the particular phenomenon in the end.
Another example is related to human visual perception [9, 13, 40], which is roughly understood as the capacity to acquire and process visual information from objects and events in the environment. In the biological mechanism related to human visual perception, the occipital lobe is central, since many studies on humans show deficits in visual processing due to damage in the occipital lobe. The mechanism also includes a projection of the optic tract going from the eye, passing by the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN), which is an area of the thalamus, and achieving the occipital lobe. Besides, it includes the eyes, optic nerves, and other brain areas responsible for visual perception. All these areas can be decomposed in working components and their operations, and each decomposition is considered to be a lower level in the entire constitution of the mechanism. The occipital lobe, for instance, can be itself decomposed in areas responsible for particular visual functions, such as the striate cortex, also known as Brodmann area 17, or V1 (primary visual cortex, or visual area 1).
The same procedure can be done for all the other areas in the brain that are also part of the mechanism responsible for visual perception; for instance, V2, V3, V4, and V5/MT. It is necessary to identify also the cells (including visual receptor cells in the retina of the eye, such as cones and rods), networks of cells, or larger neural systems in these areas that are responsible for
As one can observe by looking at these two examples, the notion of “computation” in the mechanistic framework stands for some causal interactions within the nervous system and this is how different brain regions “compute” different information. Each brain region “stands for” some kind of particular information—related to perception, sensation, memory, language, reasoning, emotion, etc. The substantial problems with such an account of human cognition will be analyzed in what follows.
A great deal of criticism has arisen in the specialized literature concerning the notion of human cognitive computation. It is nearly impossible to review all of the works, but I will make some considerations of some of the most influential critics.
Fodor [53, 54, 55], for instance, claims that many mental representations (e.g., beliefs) and mental processes (e.g., abductive reasoning) are sensitive to global properties (i.e., properties that beliefs, for instance, have so that they are determined by a set of other beliefs which they are members of). For example, a belief about a tennis racket being broken may complicate the plan of playing tennis on the weekend, but not the plan of playing soccer. This means that a mental representation, such as an intention to play tennis, will depend on the context at the moment—whether there is a racket available for the game or not. Fodor argues, though, that classical symbolic computing models are only sensitive to local properties, and neural network models cannot handle this feature of human cognition.
Dreyfus [56], in turn, claims that much human knowledge cannot be captured by symbolic manipulation and formal rules, since this knowledge is constructed through direct contact and practicing in the world. Nagel [57] brings attention to the problem of phenomenal consciousness—roughly, the issue of what it feels like to experience something subjectively. Following this line of thinking, we can also say that a computer cannot know (if it can know anything) what it feels like to taste the flavor of chocolate. It has no idea of what it is like to eat chocolate, something that is quite basic for any child that does it. More than that, computers do not feel pain or pleasure, which is quite basic for human beings. Furthermore, Searle [58] brings attention to the difficulties related to intentionality, understanding, and meaning, with his famous “Chinese room argument.” And, additionally, Putnam [59] develops the idea that mental states cannot be identified with computational states, consequently arguing vigorously against computational reductionism3.
The case of Bruner’s critics is also very interesting. One of the names most frequently mentioned in influential works of historical reconstruction of the events and studies that contributed to the beginning and development of the cognitive movement in psychology is the American psychologist Jerome Bruner (1915–2016) [1, 2, 3, 60, 61]. He is recognized for having founded, together with George Miller (1920–2012), the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University, in 1960. In addition, Bruner published, together with colleagues, in 1956,
One of the most interesting points in Bruner’s work, however, is his strong criticism of the very cognitive movement he helped to develop. He has presented this criticism in key works, such as
In
However, in Bruner’s view, this is not the way forward. In
One of the major problems pointed out by Bruner in the computationalist approach is that the production of meaning is often extremely complex, sensitive to the context, and involves the difficulty of clear and precise understanding [64]. This is not the same as establishing computational procedures for the processing of input and output information to the system, whether this is computational processing in digital format or the form of neural networks. For Bruner, meaning making is not merely information processing; it is something more profound and more complex. Culture, in his view, has a fundamental role in human life and it is only through it and in it that certain processes and mental structures are formed and used.
The human being, in Bruner’s view, was able to develop a way of life in which reality is represented by a symbolism shared by members of a cultural community, and human life is organized and built from this symbolism that is conserved, elaborated, and transmitted through successive generations [64]. Although meaning is in the mind and is produced by it, it also has its origins in culture and has its importance within the culture in which it was generated. And for the production of meanings, the human mind creates and makes use of symbolic cultural systems. Thus, in this view, thinking and learning are always situated in a cultural context [64]. Computer systems, however, are not capable of producing meanings. They only deal with a certain set of formalized and operationalized meanings, but they do not make interpretations of human and cultural phenomena.
Furthermore, there is no very clear reason to suppose that processes and relationships between all mental phenomena are literally computational in nature, nor that all mental representations have this same character. The application of the concept of computation to these phenomena investigated in the tradition of psychological research is based only on a working hypothesis present in a certain particular theoretical system. Nevertheless, there is as yet no concrete proof that all human cognition works according to a type of computational processing x, y, or z. In fact, finding out what kind of computational processing is related to the human mind has become an extremely debated issue internally by adherents of any computational model of human cognition [49]. It is no accident that comprehensive theoretical systems were developed precisely with the intention of questioning the computational model of cognition.
Now, to illustrate more concretely some of the difficulties mentioned with the notion of human cognitive computation, let us consider some cases involving conscious complex informal reasoning and conscious complex decision making where explanations for human behavior might be required [22].
Consider, firstly, a case where a person is dissatisfied with her marriage and is thinking about getting a divorce. To make such a decision, she has been consciously reflecting for months on the current state of the marriage, her beliefs about the relationship, her emotions about her partner, her desires and expectations in life, the beliefs of her family and closest friends about the issue and what are the reasons to take action in this regard. After thinking carefully for a very long time, being aware that she really does not feel comfortable and happy at all, she decides to go for a divorce.
Consider also a second example. A person needs to decide which candidate she will vote for as president of her country. To make this decision, she needs to use her conscious informal reasoning ability. Thus, she reflects on the arguments put forward by politicians running for the election, the arguments put forward by commentators, scientists, and political analysts, as well as journalists writing on the subject, and the arguments of friends and family she finds relevant and credible. After three months of thinking, she has not decided yet but is rather still in doubt concerning her vote in the major candidates A and B. When someone asks her which candidate she is going to vote, she says: “I still don’t know.” Then, some surprising news arises in a serious newspaper with charges of corruption against candidate A, and she is a frequent reader of this newspaper, so she becomes immediately aware of this. Upon reflection on the matter and related issues, she takes the new information seriously and she finally decides that voting for candidate B is the best option. The major reason is that there is no charge whatsoever of corruption against him. When she is asked now which candidate she is going to vote for, she answers immediately: “candidate B.” After she made up her mind, she finally goes to the appropriate place on the proper day and time to cast her vote.
A third example is the case of a college student who suffers from difficulties related to his excessive anxiety. Through a general psychological assessment, it can be seen that the factors related to student anxiety are financial difficulties, difficulties in family life where physical and psychological violence occurs, difficulties in finding leisure time to relax and have fun (since they need to work and study at the same time) and difficulties with excessive concerns about the uncertain future, as he believes that it will not be easy to find a job when he graduates. All of these factors seem to contribute to generate in the student’s mind distorted and dysfunctional negative thoughts about himself and his life, and it seems very plausible that these distorted thoughts are strongly associated with his excessive anxiety. This interpretation is, indeed, supported by numerous works in the specialized literature in clinical psychology. Thus, we observe that the most relevant causal factors to explain this psychological phenomenon are not merely computational, but psychological, social, and environmental.
Psychological scientific explanations, in these cases, need considerations that go beyond the investigation of computations being performed in nervous systems or even in any abstract functional system. What explains the psychological phenomenon of belief formation and decision making in the first example and the excessive anxiety in the third example is the meaning formation and interaction of beliefs, desires, and intentions to act (according to logical rules, practical rules, and interpretation of reality), which are strongly affected by emotions, physical environment, and social factors.
In the second example, evidently, an informative explanation would have to mention an important causal factor—the event of the corruption charges against candidate A, appearing in a serious newspaper. Moreover, the explanation would have to mention that the person becomes aware of this event, accepts it as reliable, accepts the charges as true and accurate, and now this content is present in one or some of her beliefs. In possession of this content, she can rationally justify herself when engaging in discussions about the topic with family, friends, and other people, providing reasons for her related beliefs and her related behaviors. Thus, the influence of the event on her is external and affects the internal logic and content of her systems of beliefs, emotions, desires, and intentions. This explanation involves then particular properties of human cognitive systems, present for instance in belief and intention systems. These properties are clearly different than those involved in merely describing supposed automatic computational activities in her neural networks or describing what is happening in terms of physical and chemical neural processes. The explanation for this phenomenon of belief formation, therefore, would also have to account for how this new information could change a particular belief given her system of beliefs about the topic.
In the examples above, there are cognitive processes that often necessitate consciousness and complex informal reasoning about belief systems that are often linked to particular perceptions, sensations, emotions, desires, intentions, attitudes, as well as related to each other and the external environment. Some of these beliefs have great value, such as some moral beliefs, which makes this whole dynamic even more complex. In these cases, blind computation might even occur at some level, but what is most relevant are environmental, social, cultural, historical, and psychological factors (such as beliefs, emotions, desires, and intentions) that acquire meaning in a given cognitive system.
The relevant explanation of the actions in such cases is made through considerations—(1) about the creation and alteration of the content of perceptions, beliefs, sensations, emotions, maxims, wills, desires, intentions, etc.; (2) about their internal relationships; and (3) about their external relationships with the physical, social, historical, and cultural context. Rigorous empirical scientific research can aid in discovering strong and systematic (stable) regularities in human behavior explained in such terms without the need for the notion of computation. Statistical tools and analysis, through the mathematical application, can bring greater objectivity, avoiding both an extremely subjective and confusing vocabulary, as well as unproductive speculation and mere common sense.
Moreover, self-consciousness here is crucial, since we humans have the ability to
Therefore, human beings have the ability to form original belief systems and relate them according to logical and interpretative rules, building arguments to support their point of view, which often influences their behavior. Human beings are also able to think about different types of relevant information for months or years to make an important and complex decision. To make a difficult decision, a human being can take into account information related to plans for the very distant future, in which many scenarios are considered. A human may wonder what happened in the very distant past, or what might have happened, even if he or she knew what really happened. And complex informal reasoning and complex decision making are things that humans do naturally and often in their daily lives.
Thus, in cognitive science, it is necessary to deal with extremely complex phenomena, given that human beings show great differences when compared to other animals in nature. Human beings have a cumulative, complex, dynamic, and elaborate culture that is passed on through generations. Humans are also involved in understanding and writing their own history. They have natural languages with enormous, complex, and refined expressive power and sophisticated grammar. Human beings practice and appreciate art, such as literature, painting, cinema, and music. They engage in purely formal or very abstract thoughts when they do mathematics, logic, and engage in certain religious thoughts. They create legal laws for their societies and think about morality, building moral systems. They build artificial intelligence machines that are able to learn with a certain level of autonomy and are able to explore other planets. Furthermore, humans are involved in politics, science, and philosophy.
Computers, by contrast, so far, do not form beliefs on their own, they do not have the capacity to evaluate and improve them by themselves, and they do not interact in the social environment neither using natural language with a huge degree of sophistication as humans do nor engaging in social and cultural practices. If we look at the problem from a very concrete and objective point of view, we observe that even the most advanced computer systems, the most advanced robots, and the most advanced artificial neural and cognitive architectures today are still very far from behaving like human beings in relation to language and actions that involve consciousness and informal rationality. Humans are capable of playing chess, cooking pizza, making coffee, having a conversation about politics, creating a new song on a guitar, and playing tennis on the same day. No computational artificial system is currently capable of this generality in cognition. So, as a matter of current fact, computational artificial cognition cannot be used to fully explain the major capacities of human cognition and intelligence.
It is no surprise, then, that mechanistic accounts of psychological capacities usually suggest only
Difficulties with the notion of cognitive computation are recognized by influential neo-mechanists themselves. Milkowski [21], for instance, concludes his work by admitting that we “still don’t know how to model consciousness mechanistically.” Additionally, there are several alternative models of cognitive computation in cognitive science nowadays—syntactic computation; algorithmic computation; causal computation; and semantic computation [65]. None of the models has gained significant prominence over the others concerning the understanding and explanation of human cognition. Finally, there is strong criticism even of the attempt by neo-mechanists to propose that good computational explanations in cognitive science must be also mechanistic explanations [66, 67].
Therefore, if we think about the issue from the point of view of current facts, we need to recognize that the neo-mechanistic proposal for human cognition is still far from being able to be considered the best or most plausible understanding and explanation of human cognition. It is just one view among many.
The mechanistic framework has been offering significant contributions to the field of cognitive science, on the one hand. One of its best contributions is the promotion of debates on the issue of human cognitive computation. In this sense, there is a search for a better understanding of what this notion actually means. All this effort is very worthwhile and welcome. More generally, the theoretical debate about fundamental questions in cognitive science promoted by new mechanists is also very important, as well as their effort to clarify what a “biological mechanism” and a “cognitive mechanism” are and what a “mechanistic explanation” in cognitive science is. Furthermore, another contribution of the new mechanistic philosophy is to encourage historical research and current debate, in cognitive science and beyond, about the relationship among “mechanism,” “materialism,” “reductionism” and “computationalism”, so that these concepts are not confused and that the positions adopted by the authors, as well as the different dimensions of the debate, are appreciated in a fair and correct way. Finally, the new mechanistic philosophy applied to cognitive science is also contributing to the important debate concerning the unity, integration, and plurality in the field.
On the other hand, however, many of the current promises of the new mechanism for cognitive science are quite difficult to fulfill. Firstly, neo-mechanistic philosophy is a philosophy of science built primarily from examples from the biological sciences and neuroscience that is serving as the basis for building a philosophy of the science of mind. We live in a period in which neuroscience and artificial intelligence research have gained great prestige and recognition. A great deal of economic investment has been made in these areas and this is very attractive. In part, this also influences “the new wave of mechanism,” and the necessity of some authors to expand the framework. However, numerous particularities related to psychology and human cognition are being neglected in this theoretical structure, as I tried to show.
Secondly, there is considerable disagreement among leading neo-mechanists over the most plausible formulation of MTHC regarding fundamental issues, such as the idea of human cognitive computation. Thus, there is a considerable difficulty related to the internal articulation and unification of the theory. Furthermore, many alternative major theories, and the research programs based on them, strongly threaten the neo-mechanistic framework in current cognitive science, since they are also seeking predominance in the field, or just for having more space and recognition.
Given this, we can conclude that the mechanistic model of human cognitive computation cannot provide substantial theoretical or explanatory unification or integration to the field of cognitive science today, since there is no unification between the proponents themselves. Moreover, their different proposals are often unclear on many important aspects concerning traditional problems of intentionality, consciousness, and self-consciousness. The accounts are sometimes internally not well-articulated; and, externally, there is serious criticism of them, with countless debates and controversies on several fundamental questions. In addition, there are several alternative models competing for predominance on this particular issue. And it is yet by no means clear whether the explanatory power of any of them is greater than the explanatory power of the others.
This analysis shows, therefore, that the neo-mechanistic proposal concerning human cognitive computation has serious weaknesses. But the problem is not to use the idea of cognitive computing to advance models of biological and artificial cognitive architectures, since many human cognitive abilities can already be simulated. Indeed, it is very interesting to see that our science has advanced to the point where a computer can win against the best chess and go game players in the world. In fact, advancements within computational artificial systems and robotics could well be applied to improve our educational and health systems. For example, inspired by scientific developments in the field of cognitive science, artificial cognitive systems could possibly be developed to help children with the learning process of mathematics, natural language, or history at schools, or even at the university level. Artificial systems could possibly be developed to help people with excessive anxiety symptoms, as well. This could be extremely worthwhile. Moreover, better and more advanced artificial cognitive systems and robotic systems can contribute to improving theories of human cognition, as much as better and more correct theories of human cognition can help in faster advancements of cognitive artificial systems and robotic systems. But there is good reason to keep these efforts separated and to consider human cognition as a very complex and particular phenomenon in nature.
The problem arises only with the untenable suggestion that we already have, or that we are very close to getting, the complete and definitive understanding and explanation of all the major capacities of human cognition in computational terms. This, yes, is a mistake.
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