1. Pluralistic Mechanism.
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PAZ, Abel WAJNERMAN
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PLURALISM , *MECHANISM (Philosophy) , *NEUROSCIENCES , *COMPUTATIONAL linguistics , *NORMALIZATION (Sociology) - Abstract
An argument recently proposed by Chirimuuta (2014) seems to motivate the rejection of the claims that every neurocognitive phenomenon can have a mechanistic explanation and that every neurocognitive explanation is mechanistic. In this paper, I focus on efficient coding models involving the so-called "canonical neural computations" and argue that although they imply some form of pluralism, they are compatible with two mechanistic generalizations: all neurocognitive explanations are (at least in part) mechanistic; and all neurocognitive phenomena that have an explanation have (at least) a purely mechanistic explanation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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