Intelligibility as the principle of decomposition
‘Nearly decomposable systems’ is his term for systems of relatively independent interacting components with simple interfaces between them. So the point about comprehensibility can be paraphrased as follows: finding, in something complicated and hard to understand, a set of simple reliable interfaces, dividing it into relatively independent components, is a way of rendering it intelligible.
—Haugeland, J., 2000: Mind Embodied and Embedded, p. 10. Chapter 9 in Haugeland, J., 2000: Having Thought: Essays in the Metaphysics of Mind. Harvard University Press.
author:haugeland-john book:haugeland-having-thought paper:haugeland-mind-embodied-and-embedded snip:decomposition-for-intelligibility intelligibility simplicity organization hierarchy modularization decomposition list:mind-body-world
