{"id":210741,"date":"2025-04-06T17:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/computational-theory-of-mind"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T22:11:42","slug":"computational-theory-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/computational-theory-of-mind","title":{"rendered":"Computational Theory of Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AcIMpo_K-M0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The mind is a lot like a computer \u2014 but what if this metaphor was more than just a metaphor? According to the philosopher Andy Clark, human minds aren\u2019t just like computers, human minds are computers! In this video, we\u2019ll get into the consequences of this seemingly radical framework and what it means for cognitive science as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 \u2014 Intro.<br \/> 1:09 \u2014 The conceivability argument.<br \/> 2:17 \u2014 Behaviorism revisited.<br \/> 5:14 \u2014 Identity theory.<br \/> 7:54 \u2014 Functionalism revisited.<br \/> 8:56 \u2014 Computational theory of mind.<br \/> 12:09 \u2014 Formal systems.<br \/> 13:26 \u2014 Games.<br \/> 15:20 \u2014 Language.<br \/> 17:19 \u2014 Wrapping up.<br \/> 18:55 \u2014 Key concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mind is a lot like a computer \u2014 but what if this metaphor was more than just a metaphor? According to the philosopher Andy Clark, human minds aren\u2019t just like computers, human minds are computers! In this video, we\u2019ll get into the consequences of this seemingly radical framework and what it means for cognitive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}