A vehicular theory of corporeal qualia (a gift to computationalists).

I have argued elsewhere that non-sentential representations that are the close kin of scale models can be, and often are, realized by computational processes. I will attempt here to weaken any resistance to this claim that happens to issue from those who favor an across-the-board computational theor...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 152; no. 1; pp. 103 - 126
Autor principal: Waskan, Jonathan
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Jan2011
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