On some fundamental distinctions of computationalism
Synthese 70 (January):79-96 (1987)
| Abstract | The following paper presents a characterization of three distinctions fundamental to computationalism, viz., the distinction between analog and digital machines, representation and nonrepresentation-using systems, and direct and indirect perceptual processes. Each distinction is shown to rest on nothing more than the methodological principles which justify the explanatory framework of the special sciences | |||||||||
| Keywords | Computational Complexity Metaphysics Perception Representationalism | |||||||||
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