Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 49 of 171

The mind as a symbol-manipulating machine

Since Turing’s time, cognitive science has also assumed the mind to be a symbol-manipulating machine, an analogy to the abstract mathematical Turing machine. But as the example of computers that can play chess illustrates, how a computer does math and how a human does math may be two different things entirely.

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