CAP Center for Cognition, Action & Perception, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0376, USA.
Top Cogn Sci. 2012 Jan;4(1):3-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2011.01165.x. Epub 2011 Oct 24.
Readers of TopiCS are invited to join a debate about the utility of ideas and methods of complexity science. The topics of debate include empirical instances of qualitative change in cognitive activity and whether this empirical work demonstrates sufficiently the empirical flags of complexity. In addition, new phenomena discovered by complexity scientists, and motivated by complexity theory, call into question some basic assumptions of conventional cognitive science such as stable equilibria and homogeneous variance. The articles and commentaries that appear in this issue also illustrate a new debate style format for topiCS.
《话题》的读者被邀请加入一场关于复杂性科学思想和方法的实用性的辩论。辩论的主题包括认知活动中定性变化的经验实例，以及这项经验工作是否充分展示了复杂性的经验标志。此外，复杂性科学家发现的新现象，以及受复杂性理论启发的现象，对传统认知科学的一些基本假设提出了质疑，如稳定的均衡和同质方差。本期出现的文章和评论也为《话题》展示了一种新的辩论风格。
