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Laura E Wood

Structure of Thinking

Analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists have long argued that the mind is a computer-like syntactical engine, and that all human mental capacities can be described as digital computational processes. This book presents an alternative, naturalistic view of human thinking, arguing that computers are merely sophisticated machines. Computers are only simulating thought when they crunch symbols, not thinking. Human cognition – semantics, de re reference, indexicals, meaning and causation – are all rooted in human experience and life. Without life and experience, these elements of discourse and knowledge refer to nothing. And without these elements of discourse and knowledge, syntax is vacant structure, not thinking.
348 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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  • linda1465has quoted7 years ago
    But, it seems to me rather apparent that some people are property-thinkers and others are object-thinkers, to a greater extent.
  • linda1465has quoted7 years ago
    Metaphysical questions most frequently yield universe inventories in response.
  • linda1465has quoted7 years ago
    ‘What do we know?’ or ‘What can be known?’, the natural answers to these questions seem to be ‘properties’ or ‘universals’.
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