What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison

Category theorists and cognitive scientists study the structural (analogical) relations between domains of interest albeit in different contexts, that is, formal and psychological systems, respectively. Despite this basic commonality, very few cognitive scientists take a category theory approach tow...

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Autor principal: Phillips, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
Materias:
Psychology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9716143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36467129
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048975
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description Category theorists and cognitive scientists study the structural (analogical) relations between domains of interest albeit in different contexts, that is, formal and psychological systems, respectively. Despite this basic commonality, very few cognitive scientists take a category theory approach toward understanding the structure of cognition which raises the question, What is category theory to cognitive science? An answer is given as the slogan “Category theory is to cognitive science as functor is to representation; as natural transformation is to comparison” to make category theory more accessible and informative for cognitive scientists.
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spelling pubmed-97161432022-12-03 What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison Phillips, Steven Front Psychol Psychology Category theorists and cognitive scientists study the structural (analogical) relations between domains of interest albeit in different contexts, that is, formal and psychological systems, respectively. Despite this basic commonality, very few cognitive scientists take a category theory approach toward understanding the structure of cognition which raises the question, What is category theory to cognitive science? An answer is given as the slogan “Category theory is to cognitive science as functor is to representation; as natural transformation is to comparison” to make category theory more accessible and informative for cognitive scientists. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9716143/ /pubmed/36467129 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048975 Text en Copyright © 2022 Phillips. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison
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title_short What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9716143/
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