--- abstract: 'This paper explores the role of the traditional computational metaphor in our thinking as computer scientists, its influence on epistemological styles, and its implications for our understanding of cognition. It proposes to replace the conventional metaphor--a sequence of steps--with the notion of a community of interacting entities, and examines the ramifications of such a shift on these various ways in which we think.' altloc: - http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/las/papers/CCM.pdf - http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/las/papers/CCM.ps chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Stein given: Lynn Andrea honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1999-08 date_type: published datestamp: 1999-06-28 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/05/45 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 545 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/545/1/CCM.ps|/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/545/5/CCM.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'cognition, computer science, computer science education, cognitive robotics, interactive computation, human-computer interaction, bricolage, software engineering, sequential computation, concurrent computation, softwaredesign, sociology of science' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:02 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 6 pagerange: 1-35 pubdom: FALSE publication: Cybernetics and Systems publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 14 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:30:35 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-lang - comp-sci-mach-dynam-sys - comp-sci-robot - phil-mind - phil-sci succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Challenging the Computational Metaphor: Implications for How We Think' type: journalp userid: 348 volume: 30