On some fundamental distinctions of computationalism

✍ Scribed by William Demopoulos

• Book ID: 104764590
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 989 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0039-7857
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00414027

✦ Synopsis

The following paper presents a characterization of three distinctions fundamental to computationalism, viz., the distinction between analog and digital machines, representation and nonrepresentation-using systems, and direct and indirect perceptual processes. Each distinction is shown to rest on nothing more than the methodological principles which justify the explanatory framework of the special sciences.