ABSTRACT

Computational and dynamical approaches to the mind are widely assumed to entail incompatible sciences of cognition. So foundational is the divide between the two approaches, it is said, that the latter constitutes a denial of the former. Indeed, the roots of the divide do run deep, and dynamical approaches do pose challenges to the core of the prevailing computational view. However, there is at least one sense in which the approaches can be seen as, at the very least, complementary, such that there may be a common ground for intellectual transactions between the two camps. It is the purpose of the present chapter to stake out that common ground.