BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind
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The Motivation for Appealing to Computation to Explain Cognition
There's an entirely different way to think about the rule of computation in mental life and cognition. And on this view, which is kind of one i fear for nothing, that's feet of fevers as well. computations are ways of describing complex things in the world in simple, idealized terms. So competitional models abstract, they simplify, and they idealize physical processes into forms that are mathematically tractable and that we can reason about.
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