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1. INTRODUCTION One of the strengths of artificial intelligence ('AI') as a way of thinking about thinking is that it forces one to model the movement of the mind, the way in which a particular mental phenomenon comes about. It is not enough to say that a phenomenon can happen: the programmer must specify a way in which it can happen. (Whether this is the way in which it does happen is, of course, another question.) And one of the weaknesses of Piagetian theory ? for all its salutary stress on action as the context and carrier of mental life ? is its lack of specification of detailed procedural mechanisms competent to generate the behaviour it describes. Piaget's terms assimilation and accommodation are notorious examples: a leading Piagetian has even 'explained' the parrot's lack of linguistic creativity by saying that its sensorimotor scheme for speaking is very accurate in accommodation but quite meagre in assimilative power.1 Even Piaget's careful descriptions of the development of behaviours such as weight and length sedation are related to uncomfortably vague remarks about the progression of stages, without it being made clear just how one stage (or set of conceptual structur

Author

MARGARET A. BODEN

Published

2025

Language

EN