How (and why) to think that the brain is literally a computer
The relationship between brains and computers is often taken to be merely metaphorical. However, genuine computational systems can be implemented in virtually any media; thus, one can take seriously the view that brains literally compute. But without empirical criteria for what makes a physical syst...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-09-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Computer Science |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2022.970396/full |