What is this tradition of explaining thinking by representing the brain as a computer, an object grounded in the mathematical logic?
Continue ReadingFrom Computer Metaphor to Computational Modeling: The Evolution of Computationalism
Computational modeling is deservedly successful in cognitive (neuro)science. Its successes are related to deep conceptual connections between cognition and computation. Computationalism is not only here to stay despite outdated formulations that rely on mechanistic account of physical computation.
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