Challenging the computational metaphor: Implications for how we think

Cybernetics and Systems

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 473-507

  Stein, Lynn Andrea ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

COMPUTATIONAL METAPHORS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032674283     PISSN: 01969722     EISSN: 10876553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019697299125073     Document Type: Article

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