BI 060 Michael Rescorla: Mind as Representation Machine

February 11, 2020 01:36:03
BI 060 Michael Rescorla: Mind as Representation Machine
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BI 060 Michael Rescorla: Mind as Representation Machine

Feb 11 2020 | 01:36:03

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Michael and I discuss the philosophy and a bit of history of mental representation including the computational theory of mind and the language of thought hypothesis, how science and philosophy interact, how representation relates to computation in brains and machines, levels of computational explanation, and we discuss some examples of representational approaches to mental processes like bayesian modeling.

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