¿Es compatible el constructivismo piagetiano con el del procesamiento de la información?

Abstract

This commentary on Leiser's article "Constructivism, epistemology and information processing" compares Piaget's constructivist proposal with those based on AI systems, both rule-based and connectionist. The comparison considers two levels of application of the constructivist proposal: the epistemological level, and the psychological level. At the epistemological level, the proposals generally concur, as they aim to bestow on systems of knowledge acquisition (above all connectionist systems) the capacity to improve and select rules following adaptive principies, and to simulate the mind's self-organization and self-assessment. In contrast, at the psychological level the proposals diverge, since artificial knowledge systems operate in the microgenesis of domains, under processes of continuous change and with the aid of content-based rules.