Theories of Intelligence :: Zenon Pylyshyn

Pylyshyn, puts forth three basic arguments for the differentiation between architecture and the levels of organization which occur above it.

• The first of these is simply that we can not know the METHOD (algorithm) by which a behavior occurs without knowing the primitives of the architecture. Otherwise, we (as Anderson) would not know the assumptions to make about the architecture.

• The second is that we need an architecture to allow us to predict the Cognitive Capacity of an agent. In other words, the variability produced by the agent is only constrained by the architecture.

• The third argument is that the architecture must be cognitively impenetrable, because otherwise, there can be no one algorithmic process which operates over representation to produce behavior, because the underlying structure may change.

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