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(2010) Matter and mind, Dordrecht, Springer.

Brain and computer

the hardware/software dualism

Mario Bunge

pp. 227-237

The early-modern philosophers, particularly Descartes, regarded the mind as the reasoning engine: they overlooked motivation and emotion. The contemporary version of this ultra-rationalist view is computationalism, the thesis that all mental processes are computations.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9225-0_12

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Bunge, M. (2010). Brain and computer: the hardware/software dualism, in Matter and mind, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 227-237.

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