Hilary Putnam once held the position (i.e., in the 1960s) that consciousness is literally the brain computing. That also had the impl...

One A definition isn't just an appendage to the word under scrutiny. The word would have no meaning if it weren't for the defin...

  Let's start off with a longish quote from the neuroscientist, writer and broadcaster Susan Greenfield: “ The idea [of a con...

...Thoughts-Computations-Rules-Algorithms... Many "cognitivists" believe that the brain is a computer. (Sometimes th...

In extremely general terms, it can said that behaviourism was a response to the Cartesian (or, even more widely, Western) philosophica...