Symbolic operating system example

The sciences that have an important influence on the emergence and development of cognitive psychology are linguistics, communication and computer science.

The new progress in linguistic research has promoted the emergence of cognitive psychology.

The infiltration of information theory laid the foundation for the emergence and development of information processing psychology.

Computer science is an important condition for the emergence and development of contemporary cognitive psychology.

There are two paradigms or research orientations in contemporary cognitive psychology: symbolic operating system paradigm and connectionism paradigm.

Computer metaphor is the premise and foundation of establishing the paradigm of symbolic operating system.

Computer metaphor refers to taking computer as a mental model of human brain function, from which the concept that human cognitive process or psychological activity is a kind of "calculation" is derived.

The symbol operating system paradigm is also called information processing model, symbol processing model and serial processing model. The paradigm of symbolic operating system regards people as "information processing system" or "symbolic manipulation system".

Symbol refers to everything that represents, represents or means other things. Symbol is a pattern. Any pattern, as long as it can be distinguished from other patterns, is a symbol.

Symbols have dual attributes: 1. It represents the function of external things; 2. It has physical or formal characteristics and can mark the operation of information processing.

Symbolic operating system regards human thoughts, abilities and brain processing as a series of symbols and their operating events.

A complete symbolic operating system has six functions: 1. Input symbol (input); 2. Store symbols (store); 3. Establish symbol structure; 4. Conditional migration; 5. copy)； the symbol; 6. Output symbol (output).

From the perspective of intelligent activities and results, symbolic operating system assumes that any system that can display intelligence must have the above six functions. If you have the above six functions, you show the characteristics of intelligence.

Three inferences from the hypothetical paradigm of symbolic operating system: 1. Since people have intelligence, it must be a complete symbol system. Because the computer is a complete symbolic operating system, it can show some intelligence. 3. Since people are a complete symbolic operating system and computers are symbolic operating systems, computers can be used to simulate people's cognitive activities.