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GAS doesn't 'turn the engine' when states are sequential or context-dependent

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http://www.vub.ac.be/CLEA/liane/Reviews/GAS.htm
Abstract

Selection theory requires multiple, simultaneously-actualized states. In cognition, each thought changes the “selection pressure” against which the next is evaluated; they are not simultaneously selected amongst. Cognitive change occurs not through selection among discrete “neural configurations,” but through interaction between conceptual web and context. This introduces a non-Kolmogorovian probability distribution, hence a classical formalism (e.g., selection theory) cannot be used.

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