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The world seems populated by facts. But the facts are not objective: they are the results of cognitive processes. By a psychological analysis we can go back from the facts to the processes. This possibility is excluded with the facts generated by algorithmic systems: we only know the results of them but not the processes. Thus the results produced by algorithms take on the appearance of objective facts.
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The article shows a cognitive analysis of the recursive processes that underlie computation.
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This article is part of the research on the possibility of formalizing cognitive processes.
Paolo Totaro
Universidade Federal de Alagoas
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This page is a summary of: Biological Recursion and Digital Systems: Conceptual Tools for Analysing Man-Machine Interaction, Theory Culture & Society, May 2020, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0263276420915264.
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