[Revised entry by Michael Rescorla on December 18, 2024.
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Could a machine think? Could the mind itself be a thinking machine? The computer revolution transformed discussion of these questions, offering our best prospects yet for machines that emulate reasoning, decision-making, problem solving, perception, linguistic comprehension, and other mental processes. Advances in computing raise the prospect that the mind itself is a computational system – a position known as the computational theory of mind (CTM). Computationalists are researchers who endorse CTM, at least…
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