Benjamin Cain
1 min readMar 14, 2021

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Nonsense. The computational theory of mind "is a family of views that hold that the human mind is an information processing system and that cognition and consciousness together are a form of computation."

The idea isn't that the mind is literally a computer, as in a human artifact built by a tech company. That's ludicrous. Instead, the idea is that the computer makes for a model of how the mind works, in that both computers and minds process information, and both are well explained by distinguishing between hardware and software; hence the dualism.

Anyway, my argument doesn't depend on any austere form of computationalism. But you're free to show otherwise as opposed to making empty arguments by assertion. What part of the article assumes that the mind is literally computer software? Where do I say the brain is literally a computer?

The strawman here is coming from you, not me. You say I'm aiming to falsify computationalism in a cheap way, but it's not as though I'm going for supernatural dualism. I'm trying to explain the eerie sense of that dualism in naturalistic terms, by pointing out some evident facts of how the brain is structured (as a labyrinth to itself, which produces consciousness as a limbo).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory_of_mind

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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