Sounds profound until you get into actually defining what a computer is. Re the computational theory of mind: "A “computational theory of the mind” is along th

Sounds profound until you get into actually defining what a computer is. Re the computational theory of mind: "A “computational theory of the mind” is along the same lines as having “a computational theory of the weather”, in which the earth is seen as a computer and the weather what it computes. It’s a metaphor that gives the illusion of understanding, without telling us whether tomorrow will rain or not — akin to using élan vital to “explain” life or scansoriality to “explain” propensity to climbing." http://researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk/thelablunch/2015/07/what-things-compute/ http://researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk/thelablunch/2015/07/what-...