The Mind as a Control System
- 1 March 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement
- Vol. 34, 69-110
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1358246100002460
Abstract
This is not a scholarly research paper, but a ‘position paper’ outlining an approach to the study of mind which has been gradually evolving (at least in my mind) since about 1969 when I first become acquainted with work in Artificial Intelligence through Max Clowes. I shall try to show why it is more fruitful to construe the mind as a control system than as a computational system (although computation can play a role in control mechanisms).Keywords
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