Peterdjones comments on Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 30 November 2012 07:11:36PM 0 points [-]

Theory of computation is obviously used by the computational theory of mind

Surely that is the other way round. Early computer theorists just wanted to solve mathematical problems mechanically.

Theory of computation is obviously used by the computational theory of mind

What is your point? His day job was physicist.