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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Replying to @o_guest @aeronlaffere
so do I correctly infer that researchers in this area (e.g. you :) do think the brain does compute "like a computer"?
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Replying to @ctitusbrown @aeronlaffere
Why do you need to add "like a computer", do you mean like a personal computer? If yes, no. But it does compute.
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Also I'm a computational cognitive modeler... Of course I think the brain computes.
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Yes, "does the brain compute" is an uninteresting question b/c of course it does. The more interesting Q is to what degree the brain >
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Replying to @bradpwyble @o_guest and
follow up question would then of course be whether we depend on internal representations at all.
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Like the kind of question answerable by eg dissimilarity matrices used in fMRI?
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Replying to @o_guest @bradpwyble and
Not familiar with that- have any suggestions to read?
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