The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)

(plato.stanford.edu)

20 points | by cyanregiment 2 hours ago

5 comments

  • Beijinger 5 minutes ago
  • firasd 11 minutes ago
    Doesn’t the concept of a subconscious, or inner voice, invalidate any tight analogies to Turing Machines? What logical process is putting the Fur Elise into my head (earworms etc)

    I think this article is right that definitions really matter here cause one could argue “CTM is trivial, because we can describe almost any physical system as executing computations.” So we have a dual problem here—not just the difficult discussion of ‘what’s going on in minds’, but also ‘what is computation’.

  • soupspaces 14 minutes ago
  • andsoitis 50 minutes ago
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