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BI 114 Mark Sprevak and Mazviita Chirimuuta: Computation and the Mind

Brain Inspired

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Cognitive Processes Are Computed

In principle, it's possible that you could have thought with other kinds of physical hardware. So there could be other agents who are not carbon base life forms, but are still capable of cognition. You don't want to kind of realide that a prioriri exactly extra terrestrials, yes. And so the solution that putnam proposed, and that became very popular, was that mental processes were computational processes.

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