Syntactic semantics and the proper treatment of computationalism

William J. Rapaport

doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-5622-0.ch007

Syntactic semantics and the proper treatment of computationalism

William J. Rapaport

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Empirical Research on Semiotics and Visual Rhetoric
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	128-176
Number of pages	49
ISBN (Electronic)	9781522556237
ISBN (Print)	1522556222, 9781522556220
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5622-0.ch007
State	Published - Feb 23 2018

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