The Brains Blog — Cognition

On Individuating LOT Symbols

Gualtiero Piccinini January 9, 2006 November 25, 2022 Cognition / Mindcraft

Schneider, Susan (unpublished). “The Nature of Symbols in the Language of Thought.” Schneider addresses the important problem of how to individuate LOT symbols. There is no accepted or even fully worked out solution to this problem in the literature. She gives various interesting and original arguments to the effect that …

Why care about the Church-Turing thesis?

The Church-Turing thesis (CT) says that every function that is computable in an intuitive sense is computable by an ordinary computer. Here are some reasons why you might be interested: 1. In one sense, the CT tells us the limits of physical computation: what can be computed and what cannot. …