If Patricia Churchland doesn't have a problem with the paper despite it being philosophical, then that's probably because she is a philosopher. An eliminative m

If Patricia Churchland doesn't have a problem with the paper despite it being philosophical, then that's probably because she is a philosopher. An eliminative materialist, to be precise. Personally, from reading the abstract, I disagree with the hypothesis. There's a trick where anything (even say, a database lookup) looks like optimization as long as you contrive the objective function just right, but that's kind of uninformative.