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Brain and computer

the hardware/software dualism

Mario Bunge

pp. 227-237

Abstract

The early-modern philosophers, particularly Descartes, regarded the mind as the reasoning engine: they overlooked motivation and emotion. The contemporary version of this ultra-rationalist view is computationalism, the thesis that all mental processes are computations.

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Bunge Mario (2010) Matter and mind: a philosophical inquiry. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 227-237

DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9225-0_12

Full citation:

Bunge Mario (2010) Brain and computer: the hardware/software dualism, In: Matter and mind, Dordrecht, Springer, 227–237.