Vol. 40 Núm. 1 (2020)
Artículos

El problema de ensamble

Mariela Destefano
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina / CONICET

Publicado 2020-05-01

Palabras clave

  • Language Faculty,
  • Digital Operation,
  • Analog Operation,
  • Neural Computation
  • Facultad del lenguaje,
  • Operación digital,
  • Operación analógica,
  • Computación neural

Resumen

Desde la bioloinguistica, ensamble sería una operación digital realizada en el cerebro que, en tanto tal, estaría asociada a principios específicos de la computación neural. En una primera aproximación, la computación digital consiste en el procesamiento de cadenas de dígitos de acuerdo a reglas generales. Sin embargo, los procesos neurales no se desarrollarían de acuerdo a los principios de la computación digital. Estas afirmaciones en conflicto, e.g., la caracterización digital de ensamble y la caracterización no digital del cerebro, llevan al siguiente escenario: o bien ensamble es una operación que no realiza el cerebro, o bien es realizada por el cerebro pero no digitalmente. El propósito de este artículo es evaluar los problemas de estas dos tesis.

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