
Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind
Thing in itself
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Is the Mind Brain Cognitive System Computational?
As an undergrad I was taught a book called Mind design by John Hoeklin. It collected some of the most influential papers on the computational theory of cognition. That was a very difficult book even for me and I was a philosophy major. The main highlight is that there's something different about the kind of computation that the mind does versus A Turing machine. You know it seems Flawed you know like Searle’s Chinese room argument was in there, he says.
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