Artificial intelligence: the very idea
Artificial intelligence: the very idea
The computational brain
Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
Language of Thought: The Connectionist Contribution
Minds and Machines
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I review a widely accepted argument to the conclusion that the contents of our beliefs, desires and other mental states cannot be causally efficacious in a classical computational model of the mind. I reply that this argument rests essentially on an assumption about the nature of neural structure that we have no good scientific reason to accept. I conclude that computationalism is compatible with wide semantic causal efficacy, and suggest how the computational model might be modified to accommodate this possibility.