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How are complexity and cognition related? In this paper I will examine two aspects of their relationship. I will first ask in what sense (human) cognition can be considered as an example of a complex system. Then I will examine how human cognition reacts to complexity, how much we can understand systems that should be described as complex.
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Parisi, D. (1999). Complexity and Cognition. In: Carsetti, A. (eds) Functional Models of Cognition. Theory and Decision Library, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9620-6_3
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