How minds can be computational systems

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 403-419

  Rapaport, William J ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition computation computationalism incorrigibilism personhood semantics semiotic systems syntax turing machines turing test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542444051     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095281398146671     Document Type: Article

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