During my PhD I nearly lost my mind thinking about why we build computational models in cognitive science. {thread}
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Replying to @tomstafford @chrismbrand
Afaik cognitive science was founded in no small part as a response to the AI winter: to continue building functionalist models of the mind, but with the support of and across more disciplines. This failed mostly because most disciplines are not functionalist.
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The modeling communities emerged around several architectures (ACT, Soar etc.) and paradigms (air traffic control, mental rotation etc.) in response to what gave people publications and a chance for tenured employment, not so much wrt what would lead to intellectual breakthroughs
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Ah yes. I was near this world once. EU / Eurocontrol sponsored projects about cognitive modelling in air traffic control. Similar models in Defence too, I guess.
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It's time that some applies ACT-R to the trolley problem. I am sure that leads to a second spring for the CM community. Perhaps we can even brand cognitive modeling as "AI without algorithms", so we can avoid the evils of Algorithmic Bias!
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