Existential Cognition: Computational Minds in the World
By Ron McClamrock.
Description
While the notion of the mind as information-processor—a kind of computational system—is widely accepted, many scientists and philosophers have assumed that this account of cognition shows that the mind's operations are characterizable independent of their relationship to the external world. Existential Cognition challenges the internalist view of mind, arguing that intelligence, thought, and action cannot be understood in isolation, but only in interaction with the outside world.Arguing that the mind is essentially embedded in the external world, Ron McClamrock provides a s...
ISBN(s)
0226556417, 9780226556413
