Computability, consciousness, and algorithms

R Wilensky - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1990 - cambridge.org
… The minds we know of are features of the activity of brains (… Thus, the study of mind cannot
be divorced from the study of … the first instance, to the question of "minds." I argue the case that …

The concept of computability

CE Cleland - Theoretical Computer Science, 2004 - Elsevier
I explore the conceptual foundations of Alan Turing's analysis of computability, which still
dominates thinking about computability today. I argue that Turing's account represents a last …

Computability and cognition

E Sober - Synthese, 1978 - JSTOR
Linguists conceive of grammar in much the same manner as all of us perceive the ambiguous
figure of the rabbit/duck. Looked at in one way, grammars are abstract mathematical …

The computationalist reformulation of the mind-body problem

B Marchal - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2013 - Elsevier
… by the provable equivalence, with respect to computability and noncomputability, but mainly
… have to assume to provide sense to notions like computability. In fine, this makes elementary …

[图书][B] Explaining the computational mind

M Milkowski - 2013 - books.google.com
… In this book, Marcin Milkowski argues that the mind can be explained computationally … It
does not, for example, rely on a Cartesian gulf between software and hardware, or mind and …

Computing the thinkable

DJ Chalmers - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1990 - cambridge.org
… by the question of "mind" without a genuine appreciation of … ; Turing machines, computability
and noncomputability; the Man… The minds we know of are features of the activity of brains (…

Consciousness and computability in human brain

G Basti, AL PERRONE - Neuronal Bases And Psychological …, 1999 - World Scientific
… This emerges clearly, if we recall that for any rationalist theory of mind, mind operations
reduce … calculus"', led to development of TM paradigm in computability theory. Indeed, the …

Computationalism in the Philosophy of Mind

G Piccinini - Philosophy Compass, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… of both computability theory and … ‘computability theory’ (Davis). In particular, Turing and
Church defended the Church-Turing thesis, according to which the formalisms of computability

[PDF][PDF] From Computability to Simulability

T Niculiu, S Cotofana, A Manolescu - Proc. ECCS/IEEE European …, 2006 - Citeseer
… the evolution: peace in Matter and Mind, strong will to keep understanding the Way, insured
by the current reconfigurable principles as helmets that defend our mind of false ways, not …

[PDF][PDF] On computability

W Sieg - Philosophy of mathematics, 2009 - Citeseer
… the theory of space and the pure theory of quantity: only the latter has “the complete conviction
of necessity (and also of absolute truth),” whereas the former has also outside of our mind