Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Behav Brain Sci. 2012 Aug;35(4):221-2. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X11002147. Epub 2012 Jun 15.
Vaesen disregards a plausible alternative to his position, and so fails to offer a compelling argument for unique cognitive mechanisms. We suggest an ecological alternative, according to which divergent relationships between organism and environment, not exotic neuroanatomy, are responsible for unique cognitive capacities. This approach is pertinent to claims about primate cognition; and on this basis, we argue that Vaesen's inference from unique skills to unique mechanisms is unwarranted.
瓦森忽视了他立场的一个合理替代方案，因此未能为独特的认知机制提供令人信服的论据。我们根据生态替代方案提出，生物体与环境之间的发散关系而非奇特的神经解剖结构，是独特认知能力的原因。这种方法与关于灵长类认知的主张有关；在此基础上，我们认为，瓦森从独特技能推断出独特机制的做法是没有根据的。
