In Carlos Gershenson, Diederik Aerts, and Bruce Edmonds (eds.)Philosophy and Complexity: Essays on Epistemology, Evolution, and Emergence. World Scientific (2007)
The basic presupposition of cognitive science is that mental life is more complicated (or complex) that it appears; there is more to the memory, attention, perception and the like, than meets the inner eye. In most mainstream cognitive science, the hidden workings of the mind are treated as information processing systems. In defense of their approach, cognitive scientists often point to the importance of articulating the complexity of the information processing processes underlying cognition and perception. The use of complexity in defense of mainstream cognitive science deserves detailed examination, because of its importance and because it is more philosophically problematic than has been recognized to date.