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Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind

Thing in itself

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What Are Some of Your Favorite Philosophers?

Dane Dennett, Rob Cummins, Paul and Patricia Churchland are some of his heroes. Alan Turing or John Bernard Neumann have had a huge impact on thinking about the brain in computational terms. If you want to go into philosophy, he says, do it only if you can't imagine being happy doing anything else.

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