title: Explaining the nervous system in terms of computer programming and the object-class abstraction
creator: Josephson, Brian D.
subject: Neural Modelling
subject: Neural Nets
subject: Artificial Intelligence
description: It is argued that the key to understanding the brain is to view it as a device making extensive use of methodologies developed in computer programming, the idea of compiling source code written in a high-level language providing a mechanism for conceptually linking the two domains.  Following the argument through, one arrives at a clarification of what the nervous system in its complexity is all about; it consists of a collection of devices for implementing specific kinds of competence, in ways in principle indicated in detail by application of the object-oriented programming paradigm to the various kinds of processes featuring in cognitive life. 
date: 2002-12
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/1456/1/Explaining_NS.html
identifier:   Josephson, Brian D.  (2002) Explaining the nervous system in terms of computer programming and the object-class abstraction.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/1456/