is there a pointer to more discussion somewhere for those of us not in the know? thx!
Are you aware of the Church-Turing thesis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis#Philosophical_implications …
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yep! that's a nice concise summary, thx.
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OK, so recall that Turing defined the TM because he was modeling the women at BP. So TM is model of humans... and keep going from there.
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Also bear in mind that best models of e.g., visual ventral pathway is a deep neural network. So try to dovetail that with the above... and
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you get that the human mind computes. Yes, it's not a von Neuman machine but neither is a TM.
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Also to be completely correct and historical it is COGNTIVE scientists not neuro-anythings that think the mind the computes. Neuro-people
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have been slowly becoming more cognitive though, e.g., cog neurosci. But then again cogsci people have been becoming less cog, which is very
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disappointing — although not directly relevant. Regardless, the ppl who tend to have a problem with this metaphor have various disagreements
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with the terminology but even they generally would accept that e.g. ML techniques do vision like the brain does vision.
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