Syntactic Semantics and the Proper Treatment of Computationalism

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Author(s): William J. Rapaport (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 49
Source title: Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Marcel Danesi (University of Toronto, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5622-0.ch007

Keywords: Digital Communications / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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Computationalism should not be the view that (human) cognition is computation; it should be the view that cognition (simpliciter) is computable. It follows that computationalism can be true even if (human) cognition is not the result of computations in the brain. If semiotic systems are systems that interpret signs, then both humans and computers are semiotic systems. Finally, minds can be considered as virtual machines implemented in certain semiotic systems, primarily the brain, but also AI computers.

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