@mastersthesis {Gershenson2002d,
	title = {A Comparison of Different Cognitive Paradigms Using Simple Animats in a Virtual Laboratory, with Implications to the Notion of Cognition},
	year = {2002},
	school = {School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex},
	type = {masters},
	abstract = {In this thesis I present a virtual laboratory which implements five different models for controlling animats: a rule-based system, a behaviour-based system, a concept-based system, a neural network, and a Braitenberg architecture. Through different experiments, I compare the performance of the models and conclude that there is no {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}best{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} model, since different models are better for different things in different contexts. The models I chose, although quite simple, represent different approaches for studying cognition. Using the results as an empirical philosophical aid, I note that there is no {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}best{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} approach for studying cognition, since different approaches have all advantages and disadvantages, because they study different aspects of cognition from different contexts. This has implications for current debates on {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}proper{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} approaches for cognition: all approaches are a bit proper, but none will be {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}proper enough{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}. I draw remarks on the notion of cognition abstracting from all the approaches used to study it, and propose a simple classification for different types of cognition.},
	url = {http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/easy/Publications/Online/MSc2002/cg26.pdf},
	author = {Carlos Gershenson}
}
