Is the brain a digital computer?

Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 64 (3):21-37 (1990)
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There are different ways to present a Presidential Address to the APA; the one I have chosen is simply to report on work that I am doing right now, on work in progress. I am going to present some of my further explorations into the computational model of the mind.\**

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The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics.Peter Ludlow - 2011 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
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The mind as the software of the brain.Ned Block - 1990 - In Daniel N. Osherson & Edward E. Smith, An Invitation to Cognitive Science: Visual cognition. 2. MIT Press. pp. 377-425.

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Vision.David Marr - 1982 - W. H. Freeman.
Minds, brains, and programs.John Searle - 1980 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3):417-57.
Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology.Daniel Clement Dennett (ed.) - 1978 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: Bradford Books.

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