Today’s Lesson
Argument about the insufficiency of computational modeling: “We can model weather patterns, economies and the cosmos with computational models, but this does not imply that these things are computers. Similarly, the existence of a working computational model of the mind does not imply that the mind is a computer.”
Gut-feeling response: Cognition is fundamentally different from those systems in that we take in and process stimuli. The mind processes information, so a computation model of the mind and the properties of such a model provide pertinent knowledge about the nature of the mind.
