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UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Evolution and modularity: the limits of mechanistic explanation Evolution and Modularity: The limits of mechanistic explanation

Jaakko Kuorikoski, Pöyhönen, Samuli, Jaakko Kuorikoski, Samuli Pöyhönen
2013 Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society   unpublished

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1 Accounts of mechanistic explanation require that complex cognitive phenomena can be decomposed into simpler subtasks. We provide a theory of explanation that rationalizes this requirement, and then we use a simple genetic algorithm exercise to demonstrate that evolution can produce designs that violate this functional modularity requirement.
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Jaakko Kuorikoski, Pöyhönen, Samuli, Jaakko Kuorikoski, Samuli Pöyhönen. "UC Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title Evolution and modularity: the limits of mechanistic explanation Evolution and Modularity: The limits of mechanistic explanation." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2013)