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The Logic of Mind (Hardcover, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed. 1989)
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The Logic of Mind (Hardcover, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed. 1989)
Series: Synthese Library, 155
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This book presents a mechanist philosophy of mind. I hold that the
human mind is a system of computational or recursive rules that are
embodied in the nervous system; that the material presence of these
rules accounts for perception, conception, speech, belief, desire,
intentional acts, and other forms of intelligence. In this edition
I have retained the whole of the fIrst edition except for
discussion of issues which no longer are relevant in philosophy of
mind and cognitive psychology. Earlier reference to disputes of the
1960's and 70's between hard-line empiricists and neorationalists
over the psychological status of grammars and language acquisition,
for instance, has simply been dropped. In place of such material I
have entered some timely or new topics and a few changes. There are
brief references to the question of computer versus distributed
processing (connectionist) theories. Many of these questions
dissolve if one distinguishes as I now do in Chapter II between
free and embodied algorithms. I have also added to my comments on
artifIcal in telligence some reflections. on Searle's Chinese
Translator. The irreducibility of machine functionalist psychology
in my version or any other has been exaggerated. Input, output, and
state entities are token identical to physical or biological things
of some sort, while a machine system as a collection of recursive
rules is type identical to representatives of equivalence classes.
This nuld technicality emerges in Chapter XI. It entails that
so-called "anomalous monism" is right in one sense and wrong in
another."
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