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Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind

Thing in itself

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The Autonomy of Psychology

Psychologists think you can have No neuroscience can just be about mechanisms and then psychology is its own emergent layer. But if we take The kind of computation the mind is seriously then it's not so much a clean mind where the mechanisms end and where the function begins. We've already figured out that The representations and computations that you find in the brain are quite different in very important ways from those that you find for example in a digital computer, he says. "We need to form our theories on that basis"

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