The biological foundations of cognitive science
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The Biological Foundations of Cognitive Science
Computationalism suggests that mental properties and processes can be modeled independently of most specifics about the brain — mind is like a computer program, and program properties do not depend on details of the computers that execute them. But computationalism suffers from fatal conceptual problems concerning the nature of representation. An alternative model of representation, called inte...
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عنوان ژورنال: New Ideas in Psychology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0732-118X
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2008.04.001