Re: Aaron Sloman's "The Irrelevance of Turing Machines to AI" article

From: Allan C Cybulskie (allan.c.cybulskie_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 07:45:45 -0400

"Wolf Kirchmeir" <wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Sergio Navega wrote:
> >>Again, granted that "categorisation" takes place. But what, exactly, is
> >>it? I submit it's behaviour.
> >
> >
> > And so your investigation of the subject stops. Cognitive scientists
> > want to develop abstract (even mathematical) models of categorization.
> [...]
>
> a) investigation begins with "categorisation is behavior." Now we have
> some idea of what to look for.

It's a problem, though, because the only thing we find interesting about
categorisation is how it's different from every other type of behaviour.
How does calling it -- everything actually -- behaviour help us understand
anything?