The remarkable performance of large language models (LLMs) on complex linguistic tasks
has sparked a lively debate on the nature of their capabilities. Unlike humans, these models …

Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of
computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes …

A weak version of the life-mind continuity thesis entails that every living system also has a
basic mind (with a non-representational form of intentionality). The strong version entails that …

Cognitive representations are typically analyzed in terms of content, vehicle, and format.
Although current work on formats appeals to intuitions about external representations, such …

The mechanistic view of computation contends that computational explanations are
mechanistic explanations. Mechanists, however, disagree about the precise role that the …

A single physical process may often be described equally well as computing several
different mathematical functions—none of which is explanatorily privileged. How, then …

It is often indeterminate what function a given computational system computes. This
phenomenon has been referred to as “computational indeterminacy” or “multiplicity of …

ABSTRACT A distinguishing feature of neural computation and information processing is
that it fits models that describe the most efficient strategies for performing different cognitive …

Computational perspectivalism has been recently proposed as an alternative to mainstream
accounts of physical computation, and especially to the teleologically-based mechanistic …

An influential view in (philosophy of) cognitive science is that computation in cognitive
systems is semantic, conceptually depending on representation: to compute is to manipulate …