Cognitive science's information-processing view bridges brains and thinking machines
sreejan_kumar · x · 2026-10-04
Following up on his sensorimotor loop argument, the author agrees that cognitive science's abstract information-processing view was a unique lineage—a natural bridge between brains and thinking machines, whether today's LLMs or computational models of systems neuroscience phenomena, the latter being his own research focus.
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