Objective Computation Versus Subjective Computation.
The question 'What is computation?' might seem a trivial one to many, but this is far from being in consensus in philosophy of mind, cognitive science and even in physics. The lack of consensus leads to some interesting, yet contentious, claims, such as that cognition or even the universe is computa...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 80; no. 5; pp. 1031 - 1054 |
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