computationalismn.
/ˌkɒmpjᵿˈteɪʃn̩əlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌkɒmpjᵿˈteɪʃn̩l̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌkɒmpjᵿˈteɪʃənl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌkɒmpjᵿˈteɪʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃ(ə)nlˌɪz(ə)m/, /ˌkɑmpjəˈteɪʃnəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Psychology.
The belief that the workings of the brain and the mind are best understood in computational terms.
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1979 R. C. Richardson in Philos. Sci. 46 555 Since these are the most compelling reasons for thinking psychology, understood on a computational model, is inherently anti-reductionist, the argument of these parts constitutes a prima facie reconciliation of computationalism and reductionism.
1988 Mind 97 620 The possibility of a rapprochement between..computationalism on the one hand and intentionalist philosophy of mind on the other.
2006 Appl. Math. & Computation 178 10 Gödel..also believed that his incompleteness results entailed the falsity of computationalism (the view that human persons are essentially Turing machines).
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