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Gualtiero Piccinini on computation and the mind

Thing in itself

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Exactly So the Computations Build the Representational States

In this sense shouldn't be thought of as a mystery in trying to figure out what kind of come what kind of Computation the brain does. These are Dynamical representations. They're not static like you know once you represent it. It's always updating itself and it's always guiding action on the basis of this Current state of this internal simulation, right? That's really interesting because I feel like the problems in philosophy of mine are always either syntactic or semantic that the people have a problem with figuring out what type of system can compute.

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