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Welcome to Wales: Searle on the Computational Theory of Mind
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
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In a recent book devoted to giving an overview of cognitive science, Justin Lieber writes:
…dazzingly complex computational processes achieve our visual and linguistic understanding, but apart from a few levels of representation these are as little open to our conscious view as the multitudinous rhythm of blood flow through the countless vessels of our brain.
It is the aim of hundreds of workers in the allied fields of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence to unmask these computation processes and install them in digital computers.
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