Microfunctionalism: Connectionism and the Scientific Explanation of Mental States
In A. Clark (ed.), Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing. MIT Press (1989)
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This is an amended version of material that first appeared in A. Clark, Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989), Ch. 1, 2, and 6. It appears in German translation in Metzinger,T (Ed) DAS LEIB-SEELE-PROBLEM IN DER ZWEITEN HELFTE DES 20 JAHRHUNDERTS (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. 1999)Author's Profile
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