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Computationalism as a form of dualism

Hardly any cognitive scientists are dualists in the Cartesian sense. While the Cartesians believed that the mind represented the world, they also believed it was separate from the brain and made of nonmaterial substance. However, the idea that human thought is computational is a form of dualism.

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