The indeterminacy of computation.
Do the dynamics of a physical system determine what function the system computes? Except in special cases, the answer is no: it is often indeterminate what function a given physical system computes. Accordingly, care should be taken when the question 'What does a particular neuronal system do?' is a...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 199; no. 5/6; pp. 12753 - 12776 |
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