Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina) / quote 9 of 68

Cognition as the manipulation of symbols

The classical approach to AI encompasses a set of principles and practices used to explore the validity of cognitivism, and specifically, to investigate the hypothesis proposed by Newell and Simon. Cognition is best understood as the formal manipulation of symbolic structures.

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