The Metaphysics of Computation

Hobbes says cognition is computation and then here's the radical idea he proposes. He takes a new idea, current at the time, remember the idea that matter is a substance. If artificial intelligence is right, if I can build a material machine that is capable of computation, then I will have made a mind. And that's radical. We'll take a look at how Descartes responds to that and how deep that response is woven into our culture as we move between AI and Descartes even today.