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GAS doesn't “turn the engine” when states are sequential or context-dependent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Liane Gabora
Liane Gabora*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, 3210 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 94720–1650; Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA), Free University of Brussels, Belgium http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/
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liane@berkeley.edu
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Abstract:

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Selection theory requires multiple, simultaneously-actualized states. In cognition, each thought changes the “selection pressure” against which the next is evaluated; they are not simultaneously selected amongst. Cognitive change occurs not through selection among discrete “neural configurations,” but through interaction between conceptual web and context. This introduces a non-Kolmogorovian probability distribution, hence a classical formalism (e.g., selection theory) cannot be used.

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Type
Continuing Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 901 - 902
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

Footnotes

Commentary on David L. Hull, Rodney E. Langman & Sigrid S. Glenn (2001). A general account of selection: Biology, immunology, and behavior. BBS 24(3):511–573.