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Computation, San Diego Style.

What does it mean to say that a physical system computes or, specifically, to say that the nervous system computes? One answer, endorsed here, is that computing is a sort of modeling. I trace this line of answer in the conceptual and philosophical work conducted over the last 3 decades by researcher...

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Published in:Philosophy of Science Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 862 - 875
Main Author: Shagrir, Oron
Format: Article
Published: Cambridge University Press Dec2010
Subjects:
Computational neuroscience
Nervous system
Philosophy of science
University of California, San Diego
Neurosciences
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