"Most of the mind is not a computer: most mental processes are not computations."
— Mellor, D. H. (b. 1938)
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Date
1988
Metaphor
"Most of the mind is not a computer: most mental processes are not computations."
Metaphor in Context
How much of the mind is a computer? Computational psychologists, who 'see psychology as the study of the various computational processes whereby mental representations are constructed, organised and transformed' (Boden 1984), say that most if not all of it is. I think they are wrong. Most of the mind is not a computer: most mental processes are not computations.
(p. 61)
(p. 61)
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Citation
Mellor, D. H. "How Much of the Mind is a Computer?" Matters of Metaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991), pp. 61-81. Originally published in 1988.
Date of Entry
05/26/2009
