The Mind as a Control System

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 34:69-110 (1993)
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This is not a scholarly research paper, but a ‘position paper’ outlining an approach to the study of mind which has been gradually evolving since about 1969 when I first become acquainted with work in Artificial Intelligence through Max Clowes. I shall try to show why it is more fruitful to construe the mind as a control system than as a computational system.

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reprint Sloman, Aaron (1993) "The mind as a control system". In Hookway, Christopher, Peterson, Donald M., Philosophy and Cognitive Science, pp. 69-110: Cambridge University Press (1993)

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