Computing the mind | Kenneth Cukier, Joanna Bryson, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is the Brain Like a Computer?
Before there was a computer, we didn't know how to actually create a quotoquote, thinking machine. And what we chose as the object of humanity in the 19 twenties and thirties and forties is the computer. Now think about it. We buy computers based on memory, and we have a processor. The memory is like human the memory, and the processor is the function of cognition,. or reason. But thereis a limitation, and that is the mental model of a human being, framing. A i cannot do that. It cannot generate mental models nor change them. Humans do something that's more important, which is we can see what isn't there. If there isn
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