It is my great pleasure to write this preface for Dr. Nir Fresco's book “Physical Computation
and Cognitive Science” based on his doctoral thesis “Concrete Digital Computation …

Computationalism, the notion that cognition is computation, is a working hypothesis of many
AI researchers and Cognitive Scientists. Although it has not been proved, neither has it been …

Computing systems are everywhere today. Even the brain is thought to be a sort of
computing system. But what does it mean to say that a given organ or system computes …

Which notion of computation (if any) is essential for explaining cognition? Five answers to
this question are discussed in the paper.(1) The classicist answer: symbolic (digital) …

Abstract The journal of Cognitive Computation is defined in part by the notion that
biologically inspired computational accounts are at the heart of cognitive processes in both …

After briefly discussing the relevance of the notions 'computation'and 'implementation'for
cognitive science, I summarize some of the problems that have been found in their most …

Since the cognitive revolution, it has become commonplace that cognition involves both
computation and information processing. Is this one claim or two? Is computation the same …

Computationalism has been the mainstream view of cognition for decades. There are
periodic reports of its demise, but they are greatly exaggerated. This essay surveys some …

Classical computationalism-the view that mental states are computational states-has come
under attack in recent years. Critics claim that in defining computation solely in abstract …

A defense of the computational explanation of cognition that relies on mechanistic
philosophy of science and advocates for explanatory pluralism. In this book, Marcin …