How Can a Massively Modular Mind Be Context-Sensitive? A Computational Approach
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Starting from a question by Dan Sperber, we analyze the expressive power of massively modular systems from a computational point of view. The key operation is introducing a non-computational component, a limited amount of resources to be shared among the modules. A case study is provided showing that such systems are flexible and context-sensitive, also having interesting cognitive features such as priming and memory effects.
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