?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Notationality+and+the+Information+Processing+Mind&rft.creator=Goel%2C+V.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.description=Cognitive+science+uses+the+notion+of+computational+information+processing+to+explain+cognitive+information+processing.+Some+philosophers+have+argued+that+anything+can+be+described+as+doing+computational+information+processing%2C+and+if+so%2C+it+is+a+vacuous+notion+for+explanatory+purposes.+An+attempt+is+made+to+explicate+the+notions+of+cognitive+information+processing+and+computational+information+processing+and+to+specify+the+relationship+between+them.+It+is+demonstrated+that+the+resulting+notion+of+computational+information+processing+can+only+be+realized+in+a+restrictive+class+of+dynamical+systems+called+physical+notational+systems+(after+Goodman's+theory+of+notationality)%2C+and+that+the+systems+generally+appealed+to+by+cognitive+science+--+physical+symbol+systems+--+are+indeed+such+systems.+Furthermore%2C+it+turns+out+that+other+alternative+conceptions+of+computational+information+processing%2C+Fodor's+(1975)+Language+of+Thought+and+Cummins'+(1989)+Interpretational+Semantics+appeal+to+substantially+the+same+restrictive+class+of+systems.+The+necessary+connection+of+computational+information+processing+with+notationality+saves+the+enterprise+from+charges+of+vacuousness+and+has+some+interesting+implications+for+connectionism.+But+unfortunately%2C+it+distorts+the+subject+matter+and+entails+some+troubling+consequences+for+a+cognitive+science+which+tries+to+make+notationality+do+the+work+of+genuine+mental+representations.&rft.date=1991&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F693%2F1%2Fnotationality.html&rft.identifier=++Goel%2C+V.++(1991)+Notationality+and+the+Information+Processing+Mind.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F693%2F