models of neural computation
Mistry, Dinyar
In contemporary philosophy, materialist theories of the mind have dominated discussion in the philosophy of mind, with versions of the Computational theory of the Mind (CTM) being in the mainstream. The CTM is based on the intuition that the mind is a computer, and mental processes involve computations. The idea of the mind as a computer program was originally proposed by Putnam (1960). It was based on the abstract idea of computation derived ...